Melody Gilbert

Melody Gilbert
Born	St. Paul, Minnesota
Residence	Chicago, Illinois
Occupation	Independent documentary filmmaker
Website	http://frozenfeetfilm.com/

Melody Gilbert is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, and educator from St. Paul, Minnesota now stationed in Chicago, Illinois. Her work is noteworthy for featuring a rare intimacy with her subjects as she unearths previously hidden worlds. She works mostly solo, querying her subjects from behind the camera, giving the voice to ordinary people with extraordinary stories. She has Directed, Filmed, Produced, and sometimes Edited, five independent feature-length documentaries since 2002. The Documentary Channel calls her "one of the most fearless filmmakers in contemporary documentary cinema."

Ms. Gilbert enjoyed a long career as an award-winning television news producer and reporter, working at television stations in Washington, D.C, New York, Wisconsin, California, Florida and Minnesota, including Twin Cities Public Television (TPT), KSTP-TV and WCCO-TV. Her specialty was investigative reporting as well as covering the arts. In 1996, Ms. Gilbert started teaching broadcast journalism and documentary production at the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and continues to teach documentary through workshops and classes. She has also taught at Carleton College, IFP, College of Visual Arts, Walker Art Center and in Romania and Kyrgyzstan. She was also Assistant Professor at the American University in Bulgaria located in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. She is an advisory board member of IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts, was a founding member of Minnesota Women in Film and Television, and is founder and President of Minnesota DocuClub. In 2001, she formed her own company, Frozen Feet Films, and has been an independent director/producer since. She has also received several fellowships and grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, The Jerome Foundation and the McKnight Artist Fellowship for filmmakers.

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