Yvonne Welbon facts for kids

Yvonne Welbon is an American filmmaker. She is a director, producer, and screenwriter who lives in Chicago. She is well-known for her films like Living with Pride:Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999), Sisters in Cinema (2003), and Monique (1992).

About Yvonne Welbon's Career

Yvonne Welbon has directed nine films and produced fifteen others. Her movies have been shown on many TV channels, including PBS and the Sundance Channel. They have also been featured in major film festivals around the world. These include the Toronto International Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival.

Award-Winning Films

One of her films, Living with Pride:Ruth C. Ellis @ 100, won ten awards for best documentary. It also received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.

Projects and Research

Yvonne Welbon has worked on a project called Sisters in Cinema. This project includes a documentary, a website, and a book. It explores the history of African American women who direct feature films. It also looks at the challenges they face in the film industry.

She also created an online community project. It is called Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African American Lesbian Media-making (1986-2011). This project includes essays, a documentary, an archive, and a mobile app.

Films Yvonne Welbon Produced

Yvonne Welbon has produced many films for other directors. Some of these include:

• Split Screen by John Pierson
• Mother of the River and Compensation by Zeinabu Irene Davis
• Stranger Inside by Cheryl Dunye
• É Minha Cara (That's My Face) by Thomas Allen Harris
• The Water Front by Liz Miller
• Scale by Alex Juhasz
• GERBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home by Andrew Nisker
• One Small Step and Stray Dogs by Catherine Crouch

Yvonne Welbon's Life Story

Yvonne Welbon grew up in Chicago. Her father was a police officer. She earned her first college degree in history from Vassar College.

After college, she lived in Taipei, Taiwan, for six years. There, she taught English and learned Mandarin Chinese. She also started and published an arts magazine, which she ran for five years.

Education and Teaching

When she returned to the United States, Yvonne Welbon continued her education. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Later, she received her PhD from Northwestern University in 2001. She also completed a program at the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women.

Yvonne Welbon is an associate professor and department chair at Bennett College for Women. This college is an HBCU (Historically Black College and University) in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was also a visiting scholar at Duke University from 2013 to 2014. She is working to organize her "Sisters in Cinema" archive so it can be used for academic research.

Currently, Yvonne Welbon is the Interim Creative Director of Chicken and Egg Pictures. She produced a documentary called The New Black by Yoruba Richen.

Yvonne Welbon's Filmography

Films Directed

• Monique (film) (1992)
• The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash (1992)
• Sisters in the Life: First Love (1993)
• Missing Relations (1994)
• Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself (1996)
• Split Screen (TV series, 1997)
• Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)
• The Taste of Dirt (2003)
• Sisters in Cinema (2003)

Films Produced

• Monique (1992)
• Mother of the River (short, associate producer, 1995)
• Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself (1996)
• Compensation (associate producer, 1999)
• One Small Step (1999)
• Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999)
• Stranger Inside (TV Movie, associate producer, 2001)
• That's My Face (co-producer, 2001)
• Stray Dogs (2002)
• Sisters in Cinema (2003)
• The Water Front (2007)
• Scale: Measuring Might in the Media Age (2007)
• Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home (2007)
• The New Black (2013)

See also

In Spanish: Yvonne Welbon para niños

• List of female film and television directors