About

Known credits:
20
Birthday:
1967-04-21
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois
Website:
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Yvonne Welbon

Overview

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)

Known for

Acting
2018 Dykes, Camera, Action! Actor Self 58
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1998 Women of Vision Actor Self N/A
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Directing
2003 Sisters in Cinema Directing Director N/A
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1999 Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 Directing Director 58
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1995 Remembering Wei-Yi Fang, Remembering Myself Directing Director N/A
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1994 Missing Relations Directing Director N/A
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1993 Sisters in the Life: First Love Directing Director N/A
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1992 The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash Directing Director N/A
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1990 Monique Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2003 Sisters in Cinema Writing Writer N/A
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1992 The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2020 Queenie Production Executive Producer 59
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2020 Mama Gloria Production Producer 58
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2020 Unapologetic Production Executive Producer 59
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2013 The New Black Production Producer 58
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2003 Sisters in Cinema Production Producer N/A
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1999 Compensation Production Producer 59
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1995 Mother of the River Production Associate Producer N/A
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1992 The Cinematic Jazz of Julie Dash Production Producer N/A
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Sound
2003 Sisters in Cinema Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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