| Helen De Michiel | |
| Birth Date: | 28 November 1953 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Director Producer Activist Author |
Helen De Michiel (born November 28, 1953) is an American director, producer, media arts advocate, strategist and author whose work includes film, television, multimedia installation and digital transmedia.
As a producer, director and writer, her work includes the dramatic feature film Tarantella (1995, starring Mira Sorvino)[1] that toured festivals worldwide and was broadcast nationally on the public television series Independent Lens in 1997. Her documentary: Turn Here Sweet Corn (1990) was broadcast on the PBS series POV in 1993 and continues to be in educational distribution for environmental organizers.[2] As artist-in-residence, she has created participatory media installations, including The Listening Project (1994) for the Walker Art Center[3] and Paying Attention (2003) for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Her documentary, The Gender Chip Project (2006) was created in an innovative participatory process with a cohort of young women studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and is distributed by Women Make Movies.[4] [5] Her groundbreaking transmedia episodic documentary, Lunch Love Community (2014) documents the evolution of school lunch reform in Berkeley.[6]
De Michiel was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 2001 to 2007.[7]
De Michiel has received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation[8] and the Bush Foundation.[9] An earlier video essay, Consider Anything, Only Don’t Cry (1988) received the "Best New Vision" Golden Gate Award at the 1989 San Francisco International Film Festival.[10] [11]