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BIO / FILMOGRAPHY SALEM MEKURIA is Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and an independent film producer, writer, director, originally from Ethiopia. For a number of years, she worked with NOVA, Public Television's premier science documentary series, a production of WGBH-TV, and with numerous international film productions focusing on issues of African women and development. Salem Mekuria is the recipient of numerous awards, production grants and fellowships. Her films have been broadcast internationally and have screened at venues all over the world.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (‘05-‘06); Fulbright Fellowship (’03-‘04); New England Media Fellowship Award ('01); Faculty Awards, Wellesley College (‘93, ‘94, ’95, ’96, ’98, ‘99, '00, ’01, ‘02); the LEF Foundation (’97, ’00, ’03); National Black Programming Consortium, CPB (‘93, ‘95, ‘96); Rockefeller Foundation, Intercultural Media Fellowship (‘95); Lila Wallace-- Readers Digest International Artists Residency Program (‘93); Travel Grant, Artists International. (‘92); New England Regional Film and Video Fellowship (‘88, ‘92); Channel 4-TV, UK (‘89, ‘92, ‘94); Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Harvard Univ. (‘90-‘92); The Massachusetts Artists Foundation (‘91); The Women's Project (‘90); United Nations Development Program for Women (‘90); The Anson Phelps Institute, New York, NY (‘88-‘89); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (‘89); United Nations High Commission for Refugees (‘89); Global Fund for Women (‘89); WDR-TV, Germany (‘89); Paul Robeson Fund (‘89); Foundation for a Compassionate Society (‘89); Schlesinger Research Library (‘89); Massachusetts Council for the Arts (‘88); Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (‘88); Massachusetts Arts Lottery (‘88). |
