C. Melinda Levin, Professor
Department of Radio, Television and Film
The University of North Texas
Academic Curriculum Vitae
C. Melinda Levin, Professor of Documentary Media
The University of North Texas
Department of Media Arts
1155 Union Circle # 310589
Denton, TX 76203-5017
USA
EDUCATION
UniversityofOklahoma
MasterofFineArtsDegree,Film/Video and Photography,SchoolofArt, College of Fine Arts.1995.
UniversityofNorthTexas
MasterofScienceDegree, Critical and Cultural Studies of Media and Documentary Production,DepartmentofRadio,TelevisionandFilm. 1992.
NewEnglandSchoolofPhotography -Boston
StudiesinDocumentary Photography. 1989-1990.
MontanaStateUniversity
BachelorofScienceDegreeinFilm,DepartmentofFilmandTelevision. 1988.
ADMINISTRATIVEAPPOINTMENTS
CEO, Homing.Device, a transmedia production venture with team members based in Texas, California and Massachusetts.
Media Director,Innermost House Foundation, 301 Mission Street, Suite 16B, Dan Francisco, California, 94105 (a registered 501(c)(3) organization.
President and Partner, DataDocs, a subsidiary of Datalus Pictures, LLC, Texas.
Coordinator, Division of Communication, Media and Performance, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of North Texas, 2015 – 2016 (Departments of Communication Studies, Dance and Theatre, Media Arts and Technical Communication).
Director, Master of Fine Arts Program and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Media Arts (formerly Department of Radio, Television and Film,) 2012 – 2016.
Department Chair,UniversityofNorthTexas,DepartmentofRadio,TelevisionandFilm (now Media Arts),2007-2011. Thisacademic unit, ishometoover1,000undergraduate majorsandpre majorsintwodistinctdegreeprograms, theMasterofArtsandMasterofFineArts degreeswith30graduatestudents,KNTU-FM-a100,000wattJazzandNewsradio station,NTTV-anews,artsandculturestationcarriedbymultiple cable entities. Situated within the 5th largest media market in the U.S., the department has an active internship program and impressive career placements for our graduates
AssociateChair,UniversityofNorthTexas,Department ofRadio,Television andFilm. August,2004-2007.
DirectorofGraduateStudies,DepartmentofRadio,TelevisionandFilm,Universityof
NorthTexas,1999-2002.
PROFESSIONALACADEMICEXPERIENCE
Professor with tenure, University of North Texas, Department of Radio, Television and Film, 2012 – present.MemberofGraduateFaculty,Undergraduate HonorsFaculty, FoundingMemberofthe research cluster InstituteforApplied ResearchandTechnology intheArtsandFoundingSteeringCommittee Member forthe CenterforContemporary ArabandMuslimCulturalStudies, member of the Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, speaker/educator for the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment and Redesign, as well as multi-disciplinary pedagogy and scholarship with colleagues from archeology, economics, biology, geography, English, philosophy, indigenous studies, environmental studies, environmental justice, disaster management and anthropology.
AssociateProfessorwithtenure,UniversityofNorthTexas,Department ofRadio, TelevisionandFilm. 2002-2011.
AssistantProfessor,UniversityofNorthTexas,Department ofRadio,Television and
Film.September1996-2002. VisitingAsst.Professor1995-1996.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSANDPRODUCTIONS VisualMediainProgress:
Homing.Device ( has been purchased), 2016-17. Documentary makers are increasingly engaged by trends and tools in the digital press; slow journalism, vlogging, live events, location-aware applications, geo-reporting, customization, crowdsourcing. A digital portal, homing.device, will prompt native, nuanced reporting, patronage and agency for those with the most at stake, while limiting the carbon footprint of documentary filmmaking. I am personally beta-testing content research within a 3-mile circumference in Middlesex County, Massachusetts (inclusive of the historical beginning of the American Revolution, Walden Pond, the site of the invention of Radar, etc.). I oversee a team of 27 designers, programmers, coders, media producers, intellectual property attorneys, web designers and computer engineers as we establish this location-based web portal/mobile application.
Received:Competitively selected for a UNT Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Fellowship, 2016-2017, including seed funding for the beta-test content research in Massachusetts.
Delgar the Water Monk(Working Title,) 2017. Lead Director, Co-Producer, Editor. Production will complete on March 29, 2017. This film is shot in The Republic of Mongolia, including in the two largest cities and in remote rural areas on the northern border with Siberia. It observes current social, religious and climate changes in Mongolia, one of the newest capitalist democracies in the world, as it quickly evolves from a nomadic, agrarian society to one that aggressively exports its natural resources and imports Western goods. Delgar Delka is a Buddhist Monk who travels Mongolia teaching about land, water and environmental pollution.
Received: Charn Uswachoke International Grant ($6,000), Rhodes College Arts Grant ($15,000)
Ninja Miners (Working Title), 2017. Lead Director, Co-Producer, Editor. Production will complete Summer, 2017. This film is shot in the Republic of Mongolia, and documents self-described “Ninja Miners”, Mongolian men and women who illegally mine for gold but who also work to actively repair the landscape by planting trees, performing healing rituals, provide services to their local, rural communities.
Cuban Earth. 2017. Director, Co-Producer, Editor, SoundRecordist. This documentary is a very unique collaboration with Artes Escénicas(the Cuban Ministry of Performing Arts), based in Havana. I amcollaborating with Gisela Cerdeira, President of the Ministry, Dr. David Taylor, faculty member at SUNY Stonybrook, and Michael B. Mullins, UNT Graduate Student. We aredocumenting the groundbreaking work of TECMA (Theatre of the Environment), whose street performances address issues of race, religion, environmental degradation and Cuba’s history and mythologies. Our first production trip occurred in 2014, and the final production trip occurred in 2016.
Funding for allin-country transportation, lodging, food, translations and political/cultural negotiations provided in full by the Cuban Ministry of Performing Arts. (First production trip, approximately $20,000, second production trip approximately $45,000)
Additional partial funding received by the Charn Uswachoke International Grant, ($6,000)
Additional partial funding received by a UNT Scholarly and Creativity Award ($5,000)
VisualMediaCompleted:
Agnes Martin: Before the Grid, Directed by Kathleen Brennan and Jina Brenneman. 2016.Postproduction and Distribution Consultant. Award of recognition, Hollywood International Independent International Film Festival, December 2016. Invited screenings at the Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Alan and Kaminsky Studios, Brooklyn, New York, 2016. Currently in submission to additional festivals and distributors.
A Field Philosopher’s Guide to Fracking (book trailer), 2015. Editor.Published by W. W. Norton and Company.
5 Short Films on Cuban Artists, 2015. Director. Published in the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Oxford University Press. (Autumn 2015)22(4):873-876
Location/Fracture,2013.Cinematographer,Director,Editor. AninterdisciplinaryexaminationoftheMesaVerde/Crow CanyonArcheologicalsitein Colorado. An interdisciplinary collaboration witharcheologists, scientists,Native cultural liaisons,an environmentalwriter,environmentaljusticeconsultants, photographersandgovernment officialstotellthishistoriceventfromdifferentdisciplinary lenses.
Distributed by the Utah University Press, May, 2015.
Screened in the “Sharing Mesa Verde Stories: Transdisciplinary Collaboration in the Field session, 2013.
Co-PI'sinclude:SteveBardolph(University ofMinnesota, Duluth),RobertMelchiorFigueroa(Oregon State University), DonnaGlowacki (UniversityofNotreDame),PorterSwentzell (Institute for American Indian Art, Santa FeNM),DavidTaylor(SUNY Stonybrook),MarkVarien(Crow CanyonArcheologicalCenter,Colorado) andSteveWolverton(UNTGeography.}
InvitedpresentationattheSocietyofEthnobiology,Denver,Colorado, 2012. FundedinpartbytheCenterfortheStudyoflnterdisciplinarityandtheCrow CanyonArcheologicalSiteinColorado, $15,000.
Ivan and Arnold: Day Laborers from Both Sides of the Border. Co-Director and Producer, Co-Videographer. Filmed at Day Labor sites with undocumented workers from Mexico and “storm chaser” US citizens who work under the radar and without paying taxes. Their storieshighlight thestrugglesandinternalracialtensionsinthisworkforcedisengaged fromformallaborstructures.
Official Selection, Honorable Mention, Documentary Short, International
Film Festival for Peace Inspiration and Equality, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2013.
Official Selection, We Speak, Here Film Festival, India, 2014.
Official Selection, Winner of the Documentary Short Competition:
The Phoenix Film Festival, 2013.
Official Selection, Workers Unite Film Festival, New York, 2013.
Juried Screening at the Southern Economic Association Annual
Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2012
JuriedScreeningattheUniversityFilmandVideoAssociation
Conference,Burlington,Vermont. 2010.
Funding:UNTHispanicandGlobalStudiesGrant,$20,000
RiverPlanet,2011. Director,LeadExecutiveProducer,Co Cinematographer
Adocumentary filmedinBrazil,India,Serbia,Slovakia,ThailandandtheUnitedStates.
Invited Screening, in Competition, Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois, 2014
TellyAwardWinner,2011.
In2011therewereapproximately 11,000entriesfromall50statesand5 continents.For32yearstheTellyAwardshavehonoredtheverybest local,regional,andcabletelevisioncommercialsandprograms,aswell asthefinestvideoandfilmproductions, andworkcreatedfortheWeb, Other2011winnersincludedproductions fromABC,ESPN,Discovery Channel, FoxHomeEntertainment, FoxSports,HGTV,LionTelevision, PBS,NationalGeographicTelevision,TheNationalGalleryofArt,D.C., TheSundanceChannel,TurnerNewsTelevision, MSNBC,Disney ChannelandTheWeatherChannel.
Documentary TopAwardofMerit,UFVA,Boston,Massachusetts.
Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts, Winner for Documentary
Cinematography, Las Vegas, 2012.
OfficialSelection:EKOfilmFestival,Prague,CzechRepublic
OfficialSelection:CostaRicaInternationalFilmFestival,Montezuma, Costa
Rica
OfficialSelection:AnchorageInternational FilmFestival,Alaska
OfficialSelection:ThinLineDocumentary FilmFestival
Invited Screening: Michigan Technological Institute’s River Analysis Program
InvitedKeynoteScreeningattheWesternColorado EnvironmentalSymposium, Gunnison/CrestedButte,Colorado,March,2011
Competitive PremiereScreeningunderfilmworkingtitle"GlobalRiversProject"
Formal Screening at the University Film and Video Association Conference, Boston,MA.
Fundedbygrantsandequipment supportfromPanasonic, UNESCO, Avid Technologies, B&HPhoto/Video,TheBerniceG.JohnsonMemorial Grant,theUNTOfficeoftheProvost,CILECT(TheInternational AssociationofFilmandTelevisionSchools,Brussels,Belgium),the DixonWaterFoundation,AmericanUniversity,CaliforniaStateUniversity LosAngeles,theUniversityofNorthTexas,theUniversity ofSouthern California,theUniversityofSouthCarolina,NationalTelevisionSchoolof Serbia,EKOFlLM,SerbiaandTheBrazilianGovernment, $470,000.
TheNewFrontier:SustainableRanchingintheAmericanWest
Co-Director.Co-Producer, Cinematographer,Editor.2010.Thisdocumentary, withan originalsoundtrack byGrammylistedcomposerRuthMendelson,explores
theissueofsustainableranchinginNorthAmerica.Themainobjectiveistochronicle thestoriesofseveralrancherswho,whileworkingwithenvironmentalactiviststhey previouslyconsideredenemies,increasebiodiversity,reviveriparianand watersheds andrestorethevitalityofprairieandmountaingrasslands. (
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Invited Screening, 2013
OfficialSelection.AmericanDocumentary Showcase. Oneofonly19 documentaryfilmsselectedbytheU.S.Department ofStatetorepresent UnitedStatescultureanddiversityatU.S.Embassiesandforforeign audiences worldwide. Thisfilmwasselectedin2010totakepartin
the2011showcaseevents,andtheDirectorwillserveasanofficial StateDepartmentdelegateatEmbassyscreenings. FellowDelegates includeOscarandEmmywinners. Iwillpersonally presented atU.S. EmbassiesandConsulates, universities, artgalleriesandtheatresin VietnamandThailandin2011.
CINEGoldenEagleAwardWinner.2011
Foundedin1957,CINEhasamulti-stage, blindjuryingprocessthat recognizes excellence throughoutthefilmandtelevisionindustries. NotedpreviouswinnersincludeKenBurns,StevenSpielberg,RonHoward,PeterJennings,AlbertMaysles,DianeSawyer,MartinScorsese andRobertZemekis.
InvitedSelection,BangkokInternationalFilmFestival,Bangkok,Thailand,2011
InvitedSelection,TheArtsCouncilofMongolia,Nationwide TouringProgramof
"AmericanTop Documentaries"(oneof3filmsselected),2011
OfficialSelection.ReelEarthFilmFestival,NewZealand, 2011
Hundreds ofsubmissions fromallovertheworld,only29featuresand36 shortfilmsselectedforinclusion.
OfficialSelectionandWinnerofBestEnvironmentalFilmAward.Breckenridge
FestivalofFilm,Breckenridge, Colorado,2011
OfficialSelectionCultureUnpluggedFilmFestival,Indonesia,2011
OfficialSelection,MillValleyFilmFestival,MarinCountyCalifornia,2011
OfficialSelection, SantaFeIndependent FilmFestival,2011
OfficialSelection, WyomingFilmFestival(Openingnightfilm),2011
OfficialSelection, EstesParkFilmFestival,Colorado,2011
InvitedScreeningatTheDallasMuseumofArt,April,2011
InvitedScreeningattheUniversityofArizona.Department ofAnthropology, 2011
InvitedScreeningattheHeadwaters EnvironmentalConference, Crested
Butte/Gunnison,Colorado,2011
JuriedBroadcastonKERA.PBSaffiliate,May,2011
JuriedScreeningofTheInternational SocietyforEnvironmentalEthics,Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2011(95proposals, 29accepted.)
Juried Screening at the International History of Water Association.
Johannesburg,SouthAfrica,2011(100submissions20presentations accepted.)
Juriedscreening ofattheUniversityFilmandVideoAssociationconference,
Boston,Massachusetts,2011
InvitedScreening,AnnualStatewideConference oftheTexasMasterNaturalists, 2011
FundedbygrantsfromtheDixonWaterFoundationandthe
UniversityofNorthTexas,$205,000.
Imaginary Enemy,2010. Second-unitCamera.LocationSoundRecordist. Shot
inBeijing,China,thisdocumentary examinesChinese-Americanrelationsthroughthe worldofaward-winningsculptorandpainterLiaoYibai.
DistributedbyDocumentary EducationalResources,NewYork.
FundedbyCILECT(Belgium),RhodesCollegeandtheUniversity ofNorth Texas,$5,000.
Tataku:TheUseofPercussioninMusicTherapyDVD,2007. Camera.Co-Director. Ananalysisofpercussionfortherapyusewiththedevelopmentallydisabled.
PublishedandDistributedbySarsenPublishing,USA
TheMayanDreamsofChanKom:Tourism,MigrationandChangingIdentitiesin theYucatan, 2007. Director,CameraandEditor. Adocumentary shotinCancunand Yucatan,Mexicothatexamineschanging MayanidentitiesinMexico.
DistributedonDVD:TheUniversityofIllinoisPress,2007(10%acceptance.)
InvitedScreenings FrameofMindseries,KERA-PBSTelevision, 2007
JuriedScreeningattheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation, Merida, Mexico(95filmsubmissions,47acceptedfroscreening.) 2010
JuriedScreeningattheSocietyforVisualAnthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2009
JuriedScreeningattheUniversityFilmandVideoAssociation, Colorado
Springs,Colorado,2009
FundedbyTheUniversityofNorthTexasandUniversidaddeQuintanaRoo, Mexico.$27,000
Cholla,2004 Director, CameraandEditor.Duringanextremedroughtinwhichmany ranchershavede-stocked orgonebankrupt,thisNewMexicoranchcontinued tosupport hundredsofcattlebythedailyburningofChollacactusforfood. Theranchers believe thatanimalsmustremainonthelandforlong-termbiodiversityandlandhealth.Thefilm observesthissublimeandritualisticactivity.
JuriedScreeningatTheUniversityFilmandVideoAssociation, theUniversityof
Toledo,Ohio.2004
OfficialSelection:TheDallasVideoFestival,Dallas,Texas,2005
InvitedScreeningatTheSundanceInstitute, SundanceVillage,Utah,2005
LosOtros:MayanMigrantsinMexico,2003Director,CameraandEditor.An anthropologicaldocumentaryshotinthepresentdaytraditionalMayanvillageofChan Kom,inMexico.
OfficialSelection:TheDallasVideoFestival,Dallas,Texas,2005{260Official
Selections,1,800entries.)
JuriedScreeningatTheSocietyforAppliedAnthropology, Dallas,Texas,2004
ScreeningattheSouthTexasInstituteoftheArts,CorpusChristi,Texas,2004
OfficialSelection:TheDocSideTouringFilmSeries,2003
JuriedScreeningatTheUniversityFilmandVideoAssociation, Ithaca,NY2003
JuriedScreeningatTheAmericanAnthropologicalAssociation,Seattle, Washington, 2003
JuriedScreeningatVisualCommunicationConference, Sandpoint,
Idaho,2003.
OfficialSelection:TheChamizalFilmFestival,Juarez,Mexico,2003
InvitedScreeningatTheHumanRightsinaChanging SocietyConference.
Galilee,Israel,2003{MelindaLevin,KeynotePresentation), 2003
InvitedScreeningCornellUniversity.InstituteonU.S.-LatinAmerican
Relations.Ithaca,NewYork,2003
InvitedScreeningatFloridaStateUniversity,Tallahassee,Florida,2003
OfficialSelection:TheFairParkFilmFestivalonWomenDirectors,Dallas, Texas,2003
TheLastLesson,2001.(RunningTime,8 minutes)Director,CameraandEditor.Commissioneddocumentary shortforKERAPublicTelevision's"FrameofMind"series. The2001programmatic themewas "death,"andthisepisodedocuments andcomments uponmyfather'sbattlewithlungcancer.
BroadcastonKERAPBS,Dallas,Texas.,2001.
CuratedScreeningattheSouthTexasInstituteoftheArts,Corpus
Christi,Texas,2004
StandingontheEdgeWatching, 1998.(RunningTime:29minutes.)Director, Camera andEditor.Adocumentary filmshotincollaborationwithayoungmanlivingonthe streetsofNewYorkCity.
CuratedScreening,TheMuseum ofModernArt.NewYorkCity,1999
JuriedScreeningatTheDallasVideoFestival,Dallas,Texas,1999
CuratedScreeningatTheArtMuseumofSouthTexas,CorpusChristi, Texas,1999
AwardWinner.BroadcastEducationAssociation,LasVegas,Nevada,
1999
JuriedScreeningattheBroadcastEducationAssociation, LasVegas, Nevada,1999
OfficialSelection:TheNewYorkInternationalIndependent FilmFestival,
NewYork,NewYork,1999
OfficialSelection:TheLongIslandFilmFestival(CertificateofMerit),
BayShore,NewYork,1999
OfficialSelection:FilmFestNewHaven,NewHaven,Connecticut,1999
OfficialSelection:TheGreatPlainsFilmFestival,Lincoln,Neb,1999
Official Selection, Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia,1999
OfficialSelection:TheSaguaroFilmFestival(Outstanding
Achievement Award),Scottsdale,Arizona,1999
OfficialSelection:TheMesillaValleyFilmFestival,Mesilla,NewMexico,
1999
OfficialSelection:SmokyMountainMediaFestival,Knoxville, Tennessee,1999
KEDTSouthTexasPublicTelevision"TheTerritory"series,Houston, Texas,1999.
KERA-PBS,DallasTexas,1999. KHOU-PBS,Houston,Texas,1999.
AlphastarTelevisionNetwork,NewHaven,Connecticut, 1999.
CuratedScreeningswith"TheTerritory",travelingseriesbyKHOU,the
AustinMuseumofArt,SouthwestAlternateMediaProject InvitedScreening:PennStateUniversity, University Park,PA,1999. InvitedScreening:TempleUniversity,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1999. InvitedScreening:Northwestern University,Evanston,Illinois,1999. InvitedScreening:TheStateUniversityofNewYork-Cortland, Cortland,NewYork,1999.
InvitedScreening:Humboldt StateUniversity,Arcata, California
InvitedScreening:TexasA&MUniversity
InvitedScreening:TheUniversityofNewHampshire
Reviewed byLillyBoruszkowski. Reviewed work(s): Standingonthe EdgeWatchingbyC.MelindaLevin,JournalofFilmandVideo.Vol.48, No.3,FilmandTelevisionHistory(Fall 1996),pp.58-60,Publishedby: ofIllinoisPress
FundedbyTheLamb'sGalleryandOff-Broadway Theater,NewYork
City,DusteeandJimHullinger,NewYorkCity,TheOklahoma Visual ArtsCouncil,TheOklahomaVisualArtistsCoalition,TheUniversityof NorthTexas,TheUniversityofOklahoma.$25,000
TagRay:Heartland, 1997.Co-Producer, CameraOperatorandEditor.SculpturalVideoInstallationcombiningvideo/audioandsculpturalelements.
CuratedSoloGalleryShowing:5501Columbia ArtGallery,Dallas, Texas,(fivemonthshowinginmaingallery)
CuratedSoloGalleryShowing:AlexandreHogueGallery,Tulsa,
Oklahoma, (two-monthshowinginthemaingallery)
CuratedSoloGalleryShowing:Oklahoma SchoolforScienceandMath, OklahomaCity,(onemonthshowinginpublicspace).
Reviewed byJanRobertsBreslin.Reviewed work(s):TagRay: HeartlandbyMelindaLevin;SunniMercer, JournalofFilmandVideoVol.52,No.1(Spring2000),p.57.Publishedby:UniversityofIllinois Press.
FundedbyTheTexasCommission ontheArts,theOklahoma Visual ArtsCommission,theOklahomaArtsCouncil,TheLamb'sGalleryand Off-Broadway TheaterofNewYorkCityandtheFritoLayFoundation. AdditionalfinancialsupportprovidedbyDocumentaryArts,Inc.and Contemporary Culture,Inc.:$45,000
HomeWork/s,InvitedParticipant, Videographer, Amultimedia, interactive internetsite, CO-RomandVirtualRealityEnvironment coordinated byAnnetteBarbier,Professorof Radio,Television andFilmatNorthwestern University, Chicago,2002.
JuriedScreening:FILEwebartshow,SaoPaulo,Brazil(Award-winner)
Juried Screening:ArsElectronicaFestival,Linz..Austria
JuriedScreening,Inter-SocietyforElectronic ArtsConference,Paris, France
JuriedScreening:"WomenandtheArtofMultimedia"attheNational
MuseumofWomenintheArts
CuratedScreening:SchooloftheArtInstituteofChicago,BettyRymerGallery
JuriedScreening:UniversityFilmandVideoAssociationConference,
ChapmanUniversity,Orange,California
FundedbyTheIllinoisStateArtsCouncilandNorthwesternUniversity
AWorkingLife,1994(Runningtime,28minutes).AssociateProducerandCo-Editor.Adocumentaryaboutablacksmith inruralPennsylvania
Distributed byPennsylvania StateUniversity
CuratedScreening:TheMuseumofModernArt,NewYork,1994
JuriedScreening,BroadcastEducationAssociation, LasVegas, Nevada,1994
BroadcastEducationAssociationAwardWinner,LasVegas,Nevada,
1994
OfficialSelection:SinkingCreekFilmandVideoFestival,Nashville, Tennessee,1994
OfficialSelection:USAFilmFestival(Finalist),Dallas,Texas,1994
OfficialSelection:NewYorkIndependent FilmFestival,NewYork,New
York,1994
OfficialSelection:DallasVideoFestival,Dallas,Texas,1994
JuriedScreening:UniversityFilmandVideoAssociation,Corvallis, Oregon,1994
JuriedScreening:AmericanFolkloreSocietyandtheFolkloreStudies
AssociationofCanada,St.John's,Canada
Blacktop, 1992.(Runningtime,28minutes.)Producer, CameraandEditor. This documentary videotapeexplorestheimpactofnewmediatechnologies onchildrenatthe OpenSchoolinLosAngeles,California
Distributed byAppleComputer,Incorporated,LosAngeles,California. FundedbyAppleComputer,Incorporated, LosAngeles,California,
$25,000.
Atlantic,1994.Director.CameraandEditor,Anexperimentaldocumentary that incorporatesaphoneconversationacrosstheAtlanticOceananddocuments thedecline ofaBritishwoman'smarriage.
OfficialSelection:DallasVideoFestival,Dallas,Texas,1994
InvitedScreening:NorthoftheBorderExhibit -Irving,Texas,1994
LightwellGalleryinNorman,Oklahoma, 1994
HometoMontana, 1988.FilmEditor.Thisdocumentary filmfollowsauthorandBostonGlobejournalist,M.R.Montgomeryashetraceshisfamily'srootsinEasternMontana.
CuratedScreening:SanFranciscoMuseumofArt,SanFrancisco, California,1989
JuriedScreening:UniversityFilmandVideoAssociation, Toronto, Canada,1989.
TelevisionBroadcasts: KQED,SanFranciscoPublicTelevision,WGBH, BostonPublicTelevision,KUSM,MontanaPublicTelevision, IdahoPublicTelevision,1989.
FundedbyTheBostonGlobeNewspaper, theMontanaHumanities
Council,MontanaStateUniversityandMontanaPBS.
Books:
Levin,C.MelindaandFredJ.Watkins.Post:TheTheoryandTechnique ofDigitalNonlinearMotionPictureEditing,2003Boston:AllynandBaconPress. Publishedin Koreanlanguage, 2008.
SpecialIssueJournalCo-Editorship:
Interdisciplinary Studies on Literature and Environment (published by Oxford University
Press), special issue “Artes y Media Ambiente Realizacion (Performing Arts and the Environment): A special Section of Cuban Theatre Performances about the Environment.
David J. Taylor and Melinda Levin, Editors. (Autumn, 2015) 22 (4):873-876 doi:10.1093/isle/isv095
Journal of Humans and Nature, published by the Center for Humans and the Environment, Chicago, Illinois. Special issue on the Theatre of the Environment, Cuba, online journal. David Taylor and Karina Pino, editors. Footage from my documentary Cuban Earth is included and an overview of our work in Cuba is discussed, 2015.
TheJournalofFilmandVideo-specialdoubleissueonAnthropology andFilm.Volume60,No.2and3,Summer/Fall,2008. C.MelindaLevinandAliciaReCruz,Co-Editors.
BookChapters:
Melinda Levin, “Location/Fracture: Documentary Storytelling in Mesa Verde” in Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa Verde, David Taylor and Steve Wolverton, ed. University of Utah Press, 2015.
Steve Bardolph, Robert Figueroa, Melinda Levin, Porter Swentzell, David Taylor and Steve Wolverton, “Prologue” in Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa Verde, David Taylor and Steve Wolverton, ed. University of Utah Press, 2015.
Arlikatti, Sudha and Melinda Levin, “Counter Terrorism, Human Rights and Social Media” NATOScienceforPeaceandSecuritySeries-HumanandSocial Dynamics. Invited chapter, in progress, 2014.
Bardolph, Steve, Robert Figueroa, Melinda Levin, Porter Swentzell, David Taylor, Steve Wolverton; “Epilogue” chapter for the book Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa Verde, In Press by the University of Utah Press (to be published May, 2015.)
Levin, Melinda: Location/Fracture: Documentary Storytelling in Mesa Verde” Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa Verde, Edited by David Taylor and Steve Wolverton. In Press by the University of Utah Press(to be published May, 2015.)
Ibanez-Bueno, Jacques, Melinda Levin, Susan Squires, Jenny Vogel; “Uses of Facetime and Video Calls: Multiple Approaches and Exhibition”, published in the scientific online journal So Multiple (2014.)
Arlikatti,SudhaandMelindaLevin."EnhancingCounter-TerrorismStrategies
ThroughVisualStorytellingTechniquesandCommunity-EmpoweredEthnographies," CounterTerrorisminDiverseCommunities, NATOScienceforPeaceandSecuritySeries-HumanandSocialDynamics,Vol.90,SiddikEkici,ed. lOSPress,The Netherlands, 2011. Thisseriesemphasizes culturallyandlinguistically diverse communitiesworldwide.
"GrantWriting"inSucceeding inDocumentary byAlanRosenthal. University ofIllinoisPress,2012.
ArticlesandReviews(allsingleauthorshipunlessnoted):
Levin, Melinda and David J. Taylor, “TECMA and Environmental Street Performance in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.” Invited article and video presentation, the Journal of Humans and Nature, the Center for Humans and Nature, Vanderbilt University. January, 2016.
Taylor, David J and Melinda Levin, “Introduction”, special issue on Cuban Arts and the Environment in the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Oxford University Press.
Levin,Melinda,KarlaBerryandSuzanneRegan.TheGlobalRiversProjectWhitePaperTechnicalReport,publishedbytheCentreInternationaldeLiaisondesEcolesdeCinema etdeTelevision, Brussels,Belgium,2008.
Levin,MelindaandAliciaReCruz.BehindtheScenesofanEthnographicFilm,The JournalofFilmandVideo,Volume60,No.2and3,Summer/Fall2008. Peerreviewed. (10%acceptance rate.)
Aitkin,Ian,ed.TheEncyclopedia oftheDocumentary Film Routledge,NY. 2005. C. MelindaLevinentriesinclude:"Glass",Holland,1958,"Nana,MomandMe",USA,1974 "LesBlank",USA,"EditingTechniques" and"EditingTechnologies".
Levin,Melinda.WomenandSports,publishedbyWomen'sStudiesQuarterly,Volume
33,Numbers 1and2,Spring/Summer2005. ReviewofSheilaSchroeder's (University of Denver)Video"SeeWhatIGot:AStoryofGirls,Basketball, ConfidenceandCourage". Peerreviewed.
Levin,Melinda, JournalofFilmandVideo,Volume57.1-2,Spring/Summer2005.Video reviewofLaramieInsideOutbyBeverlySeckinger, University ofArizona. Blindpeer reviewed.
Levin,Melinda,Videoreview,TheCaseofJonathanPollard byEranPreis.JournalofFilmandVideo,Volume54,Nos.2-3,Summer/Fall2002(cameoutFall,2004)Peer reviewed.
Levin,Melinda,Videoreview,SeeWhatIGot:AStoryofGirls,Basketball,Confidence andCourage,"VideoReview:Feedback,apublication oftheBroadcast Education Foundation, 2002.
Levin,Melinda,Filmreview,BurningContourMatrixbySimonTarr,PennState
University. JournalofFilmandVideo,Volume52,No.3,Fall,2000.Peerreviewed.
Levin,Melinda,Filmreview,PureChutneybySanjeevChatterjee,UniversityofMiami. JournalofFilmandVideo,Volume51,No.2.,Summer,1999.Peerreviewed.
Levin,Melinda,Independent DocumentariesattheSouthBySouthwest FilmFestivalforInternationalDocumentary Magazine,Volume17,No.6,June,1998.Invitedsubmission.
Levin,Melinda,TheDallasVideoFestivalforInternationalDocumentary Magazine,Vol.16,No.5,May,1997.Invitedsubmission.
Levin,Melinda, HotSprings:DocumentaryIsHereforInternationalDocumentary
Magazine. Volume15,No.9,December, 1996.Invitedsubmission.
Levin,Melinda,FilmReview, IAmNotAnAnthropologist byJimLane,EmersonCollege. JournalofFilmandVideo,Volume48,Number3,Fall,1996.Peerreviewed.
EDITORIALBOARDS ANDADVISORYBOARDS
Advisory Board, and Media Director, Innermost House Foundation, 301 Mission Street, Suite 16B, Dan Francisco, California, 94105 (a registered 501(c)(3) organization.
Advisory Board, Center for the Communication of Science, Montana State University, 2016 – present.
CINE Distinguished Juror. One of 57 invited Industry and Director jurors for the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, Washington, D.C. 2014-2015.
Finalist Judge (with Cinematographer John Bailey, ASC and Lorette Bayle, Studio/Feature Films Manager for Kodak in Los Angeles) for the 2013, 2014and 2015 International Kodak Student Scholarship Awards.