REBECCA MEYERS

Rebecca Meyers was born in New York, spent several years in the Midwest, and has been living in Massachusetts since 2005. She has been making 16mm films since her graduate studies at the University of Iowa and has screened internationally at festivals and museums, most recently in the New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde and Festival Les Inattendus in Lyon, France. Meyers has been involved with nonprofit arts organizations since her days in Iowa City, when she became active as a programmer, for both the THAW Festival of Film, Video, and Digital Media and the monthly screening series Light Reading, which she founded. She served three years as Co-Programmer of Chicago's Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival and has curated film programs for the Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, Brooklyn's Light Industry and the Harvard Film Archive, where she acted as Archive Coordinator. She was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in 2009 and a Harvard Film Study Center Fellowship for blue mantle, a cinematic essay about the sea and our relationships to its ineffable power. Rebecca served as the Director of Film Programs for ArtsEmerson from 2010-2012 and currently teaches filmmaking at Emerson College.