LINDA GOODE BRYANT   >> contact LINDA
Producer, Director, Editor, Second Camera

Linda Goode Bryant is an award-winning producer, writer, and director of experimental short films, videos, and documentaries. Bryant co-produced, directed, and edited Flag Wars (2003), a cinema verite look at what happened in a working class black neighborhood over the course of 4 years as white gays moved to the area. Flag Wars won the jury award for Best Documentary at the SXSW Film Festival, the Filmmaker Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and launched the 2003 season of P.O.V. on PBS. Bryant is currently in development for The Vote, a cinema verite look at America's 2004 Presidential campaigns, primaries, and election from the point of view of voters to understand why, in increasing numbers, Americans don't vote. She is also in production for Sweet Genius, another verite documentary that observes 4 legendary artists' artists, who in the autumn of their lives continue to buck the international art market and live life on their own terms in New York City's lower eastside, Europe, and Asia. She is also producing two video installations, Neighbors and Blocked.

Bryant's other work includes Hurricane Teens, a segment on Split Screen, a weekly cable television show aired on BRAVO/The Independent Film Channel; My Am, an experimental narrative, and The Business of Being an Artist, a documentary on the impact the art market has on artists and their creativity.

Bryant is a recipient of grants, awards, and fellowships for her film and video work. These include an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Anonymous Grant(s) from the Arts Development Committee, and project grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Ettinger Foundation.

Prior to filmmaking, Bryant was the Founding Director of Just Above Midtown, Inc. (JAM), a non-profit interdisciplinary artists space in Manhattan. JAM supported new work by emerging visual artists, choreographers, musicians, performance and theater artists, and writers. It's year-round programs included exhibitions, performance presentations, film and video series, installations, seminars, artists publications, and creative laboratories where artists experimented and developed new work.

Bryant's writing credits include her being co-author of Contextures a book about African American art in the abstract continuum of American art and All That She Wants: Transgressions, Appropriations, and Art, an essay in Bad Girls, The New Museum of Contemporary Art (The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.)

Bryant has a B.A. in painting from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a Masters Degree in Business from Columbia, University in New York and has completed study for a Masters Degree in Art History from the City College of New York.


LAURA POITRAS   >> contact LAURA
Producer, Co-Director, Cinematographer

Laura Poitras is a New York based documentary filmmaker who recently completed Oh say can you see... (2003, 20 min), a critical meditation on spectatorship and nationalism in the aftermath of 9/11.

Her other films include Exact Fantasy (1995, 16mm, 27 min), an essay about people searching for connection told through the fan letters they written to celebrities, and Living the Legacy: Racism and Resistance in the Academy (1998), a documentary about racism in a liberal university.

Her work has received funding and support from ITVS, P.O.V., the Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and others. She holds a Masters in Media Studies from the New School, in NYC.

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