Yvonne Welbon Trailers

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An award-winning independent filmmaker, originally from Chicago, Yvonne Welbon received a B.A. in history from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and at the age of 23, founded and published a premiere arts magazine with $300. She ran the magazine for five years. Welbon returned to the United States and enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an M.F.A. with a concentration in film and video and in 2001 a Ph.D. in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women. Welbon has successfully produced and distributed over 20 films including Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis@ 100, winner of ten best documentary awards—including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary and Sisters in Cinema a documentary on the history of black women feature film directors. Her films have screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel, BET, HBO and in over one hundred film festivals around the world including Toronto, Berlin and Sundance. She is currently producing The New Black, a documentary directed by Yoruba Richen and her first trans-media project, Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of Out African American Lesbian Media-making (1986 – 2011), a web based online community building project that also includes a book of essays, a documentary, an archive and a mobile application. (8/14)

Most Popular Yvonne Welbon Trailers

Total trailers found: 15

Mother of the River Trailer (1995)

07 July 1995

In this poignant story set in the 1850s, a young slave girl befriends a magical woman in the woods called Mother of the River.

Unapologetic Trailer (2020)

20 August 2020

Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 Trailer (1999)

25 June 1999

The oldest known "out" African-American lesbian remembers ten colorful decades in this hour-long documentary, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1999.

Sisters in Cinema Trailer (2003)

01 May 2003

Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.

Dykes, Camera, Action! Trailer (2018)

19 June 2018

The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another.

Missing Relations Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

An experimental dramatic documentary which explores loss and denial in an African American family through the filmmaker's story of her kidnapped twin sisters, erased from family history for 24 years.

Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woman in Taiwan after college graduation.

The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

An interview with the filmmaker Julie Dash about her film training, vision and struggle to bring Daughters of the Dust to the American movie screen.

Women of Vision Trailer (1998)

03 August 1998

Documentary that highlights 18 women and covers a period of time from the 50's to the 90's. The women chosen were selected because they represent the real diversity within both feminism and independent film and video.

Mama Gloria Trailer (2020)

14 October 2020

Meet Mama Gloria. Chicago’s Black transgender icon Gloria Allen, now in her 70s, blazed a trail for trans people like few others before her.

The New Black Trailer (2013)

14 June 2013

The New Black is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.

Compensation Trailer (1999)

14 June 1999

The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.

Monique Trailer (1990)

01 January 1990

Using a childhood experience of racial bigotry at school, this film looks at the ways in which racism is ingrained in American society, even in the play of children.

Queenie Trailer (2020)

15 October 2020

Queenie Lawrence, a 73-year-young Black Lesbian and resident of the Marcy Projects, navigates applying for the Stonewall Houses, NYC's first LGBT Elder affordable housing.

Sisters in the Life: First Love Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

A thirty-something Black lesbian reflects on falling for her best friend in junior high. Set in the 70s and 90s, this is a delightful tale of love and friendship.