Biography
Welbon has directed eight films and produced a dozen others. Her work has been screened on PBS, Starz/Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, BET, the Sundance Channel and in over one hundred film festivals around the world. Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 won ten best documentary awards—including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her ongoing Sundance Documentary Fellow project is Sisters in Cinema, a documentary, website and forthcoming book based on her doctoral dissertation about the history of African American women feature film directors.
Her producer credits include: John Pierson's Split Screen, Zeinabu Irene Davis' Sundance dramatic competition feature Compensation, Cheryl Dunye's HBO film Stranger Inside, Thomas Allen Harris' Berlin International Film Festival award-winning documentary É Minha Cara (That's My Face), and Catherine Crouch's directorial debut Stray Dogs.
Recently produced documentaries include: Scale, by Alex Juhasz, GARBAGE! The Revolution Starts at Home, by Andrew Nisker, and The Water Front, by Liz Miller.
Welbon received an undergraduate degree in History from Vassar College. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and founded and published an arts magazine. She returned to the United States and completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute's, Directing Workshop for Women.
Welbon was an assistant professor and department chair in the Journalism and Media Studies department at Bennett College for Women, an HBCU in Greensboro, NC from August 2008 until May 2012.
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