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Sasha Waters Freyer

Sash Waters

 
Associate Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature
M.F.A. Temple University


Office: W233 AJB
Phone: (319) 335-2922
sasha-waters@uiowa.edu

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Background:

Sasha Waters Freyer is a documentary & experimental film and video maker who teaches courses in 16mm and video production, writing, producing and editing for nonfiction. Her work has broadcast and screened widely in the U.S. and abroad, including on the PBS series Independent Lens, the Sundance Channel, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour, the Woodstock Film Festival, the National Museum for Women in Arts in Washington, D.C., Videoex in Zurich and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.  Waters Freyer’s documentary “This American Gothic” had its theatrical premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago in 2008 and has screened widely at micro-cinemas and film festivals from Bologna to Walla Walla.  Her new documentary work-in-progress, “Chekhov for Children,” was selected for the 2009 IFP Independent Film Week Spotlight on Docs.  Waters Freyer’s films address a range of themes and subjects, from environmental justice to feminism in the sex industry to flying poets.  She is interested in exploring the stories of artists, activists, outsiders and laughing men who tilt at windmills.  For more info please visit http:// www.room135.com

Research Areas:

social-issue documentary; experimental nonfiction, hybrid forms; feminist film theory & production; 16mm film production; biography/autobiography & voice; linear and non-linear editing; collage