SHARON A. MOONEY, CV smooney AT gmail DOT com
EDUCATION 2007 MFA Photography, Video, & Related Media, School of Visual Arts, Emphasis in Video, NY, NY. Paula Rhodes Award of Excellence for thesis film 2001 Professional Certificate: Electronic Media Technology, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash 1997 Bachelor of Arts, Electronic Media (major), English (minor), Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2019-present Associate Professor & Post-Production Coordinator, Loyola Marymount University, The School of Film and Television 2016-2019 Assistant Professor & Post-Production Coordinator, Loyola Marymount University, The School of Film and Television 2013-2016 Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, The School of Film and Television 2009-2013 Lecturer, DePaul University, Digital Cinema Program 2007-2008 Instructor of Professional Workshops, Downtown Community Television Center 2004-2007 Adjunct Instructor, The School of Visual Arts, BFA Photography Program 2000-2002 Adjunct Instructor, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash, Electronic Media Program CLASSES TAUGHT Loyola Marymount University Undergraduate PROD 366 Post-Production PROD 466 Advanced Post-Production PROD 480 Editing and Finishing the Short Film: From Set to Distribution FTVS 3700 Punk Cinema (Film Studies)
Graduate PROD 550 Intermediate Production PROD 566 Post-Production PROD 666 Advanced Post-Production PROD 685 Editing and Finishing the Short Film: From Set to Distribution, 2k/4k workflow PROD 699 Independent Study
DePaul University Undergraduate DC 120 Video Editing DC 220 Editing I
Mooney CV 1 DC 320 Editing II TV 330 Webisode Production
Graduate DC 420 Editing DC 440 Editing II DC 599 Independent Study – Pitching a TV Pilot
The Downtown Community Television Center DVD Studio Pro Workshops Instructor AfterEffects Workshops Instructor PhotoShop Workshops Instructor
The School of Visual Arts BFA Photography Digital Imaging: Pre-College, Adjunct Instructor (2007) Digital Imaging III: Web Design, Adjunct Instructor (2004)
University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash Video II: Digital Video Editing, Team-taught (2001-2002) Media Resources and Technology, Team-taught (2000) Electronic Media Survey, Teaching Assistant (2000-2002)
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Loyola Marymount University Designed MFA Editing Emphasis, implemented Fall 2020
Undergraduate/Graduate Classes Developed and Implemented: PROD 480/685 The Digital Imaging Technician Intensive Workshop PROD 480/685 Editing and Finishing the Short Film, from Set to Distribution PROD 398 Video Editing for Non-Majors *Undergraduate Only PROD 480/685 Post Production Supervisor Intensive Workshop PROD 685 Directing Actors Workshop FTVS 3700 Punk Cinema
CERTIFICATIONS LMU Certificate for Online & Hybrid Teaching and Learning 2020 Avid Media Composer Certified Instructor: User v. 2019-2020 Avid Media Composer Certified Instructor: User v. 2018 Avid Media Composer Certified Instructor: Professional v. 8.6 Avid Media Composer Certified Instructor: User v. 8.6 Avid Pro Tools Certified User v. 12
MEMBERSHIPS University Film and Video Association
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LMU UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING 8/2013- Present Academic Advising 30-44 undergraduate students per semester 6/2015 - 8/2016 Freshman Orientation Faculty Advisor Met with two years of incoming SFTV freshman to discuss the school mission and individual programs goals Created and executed experiential learning activities to introduce screenwriting and production concepts to incoming students Created a “demo reel” of student work through the program
MFA THESIS COMMITTEE MEMBER/ADVISING
2021 J. Breedlove (In development) A. Christmas (In development) M. Strasburger (In development)
2020 A. Villalobos D. Arcelin J. Conkle
2019 S. Kim T. Chan J. Ahn L. Lirette
2018 Q. Squire J. Burnett Y. Gu
2017 R. Larkin V. Chopra D. Kemete E. Long
2016 B. Polish C. McAulliffe A. Cukierski M. Yang
2015 C. Jones V. Nipani
SCHOLARSHIP/CREATIVE WORK
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DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY 2021 You have Just Been Murdered, Experimental Short, in-progress 2020 Oh, Poor Amy, Narrative Short, 17 min. 2019 Memory Distrust, Holographic short stories, 6:30 min. 2017 The Story of Everything, Narrative Short, 16 min. 2017 Yellow Persona, 3-channel Video Installation, 13 min. 2014 Reunion, Narrative Short, 18 min. 2013 The Popcorn Kid, Documentary Short, 13 min. 2012 Scarlet, Experimental Short, 5 min. 2011 Horns. Bells. Whistles. Documentary Short, 27 min. 2010 There’s No Reason to go back to Cincinnati, Experimental Short, 2 min. 2010 The Promise Land, Documentary Short, 6:30 min. 2009 Stone Blind, Music Video, 2:34 min 2009 No One Wants to Eat the Parsley, Documentary Short, 6 min. 2008 Automatic, Experimental Narrative, 30 min. 2007 13W, Documentary Short, 6min. 2006 Room 323, Experimental Short, 8 min. 2003 Car Wash, Experimental Short, 3 min. 2001 Where the Road Turns Dark, Stop Motion Animation. 5 min.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS 2017 Oh, Poor Amy, Narrative Short, 18 pages 2016 The Story of Everything, Narrative Short, 11 pages 2013 Reunion, Narrative Short, 8 pages 2006 Automatic, Narrative Short, 15 pages
FESTIVAL AND GALLERY SCREENING HISTORY - DIRECTORIAL 2020 Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston MA, 2.20 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Off-Screen! program, Ann Arbor, MI, 3.20 Installations cancelled due to Covid19 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, 4.20 Installations cancelled due to Covid19 We Make Movies International Film Festival, 9.20 Alumni Film Festival, 11.20
2019 University Film and Video Association, Minneapolis, MN, 8.19 Winner: New Media Best of Conference – Memory Distrust UFVA at MCAD, Gallery Installation, Minneapolis, MN, 8.19 Innuendo Film Festival, Milan, Italy, 7.19 Winner: Best Cinematography – The Story of Everything St Francis College Women’s Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 4.19 Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston, MA, 2.19
Mooney CV 4 2018 Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, 10.18 University Film and Video Association, Las Cruces, NM, 7.18 (one film, one new media piece) Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá, Bogotá, Columbia, 5.18 Driver Lecture Series Visiting Filmmaker Presentation, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA, 3.18 (one film screening, one gallery video installation) The Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, 2.18
2016 University Film and Video Association, Las Vegas, NV, 8.16
2015 Portsmouth International Film Festival, Portsmouth, UK, 9.15 Nominated for Best Male Performance Spotlight Short Film Awards, 5.15 Silver Award Winner
2014 International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 10.14
2013 Richmond Radicals at the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Richmond, VA, 11.13 Knowing Me, Knowing You screening, New York, NY, 10.13 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Quebec, 5.13 Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH, 4.13 Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 4.13 Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, NC, 1.13
2012 Festival of (In)appropriation, Los Angeles, CA, 11.12 Impakt Festival, public space screening, Utrecht, Netherlands, 10.12 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, Canada, 10.12 Atlanta Docufest, Atlanta, GA, 9.12 Iowa City Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA, 4.12 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, 4.12 Exceedingly Feminine///A Night of Singing Cellists, Experimental Film and Music, Brooklyn, NY, 1.12
2011 Knockout, Prak Sis Gallery group show, Chicago, IL, 11.11
2010 XFilm, TVS Sydney, Australia, 11.10 Autumedia, Cincinnati, OH, 10.10 VideoArt Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, 7/10 The Takoma Park/Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival, Silver Spring, MD, 5.10 Art Cycle!, Index Art Gallery, Newark, NJ, 5.10 Filmideo, Index Art Gallery, Newark, NJ, 4.10 DePaul Faculty Art Exhibition, 4.10
2009 Cucalorous Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, 11.09
Mooney CV 5 The Industry Professional Show, the Gallery @AI, Cincinnati, OH 10.09 Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 9.09 San Antonio Film Festival, San Antonio, TX, 6.09 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada, 5.09 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 5.09 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany, 4.09 Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, 2.09 MAGA Film and Video Festival, Macon, GA, 1.09
2008 Nihilist Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 12.08 Denver Underground Film Festival, Denver, CO, 10.08 NewFilmmakers Fall 2008 Series, New York, NY, 10.08 flEXiff 2008 Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 9.08 AutuMedia 2008, Newport, KY, 9.08 Minneapolis Underground Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN, 8.08 Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, 8.08 RECLAIM: The Visual Space Between Film and Video Series, Brooklyn, NY, 7.08 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada, 5.08 Super 8 Film Screening, New York, NY, 5.08 Athens International Film and Video Festival, 4.08 Mostly Shorts, Bard College at Simons Rock, Great Barrington, MA, 4.08 Red Saw Filmideo Series, Red Saw Art Gallery, Newark, NJ, 4.08 Dreaming a New Real, Chapel and Cultural Center, Troy, NY, 1.08
2007 RAW Video, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY, 11.07 Rob Buckley Gallery, New York, NY, 5.07 Creating a Diversion Film Screening, New York, NY, 4.07 Red Saw Filmideo Series, Red Saw Art Gallery, Newark, NJ, 4.07 555’s 5th Annual Sound and Video Festival, 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI, 3.07 Spark Video, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY, 2.07 Cinema Night, Williamsburg White Room, Brooklyn, NY, 2.07 Experimental Video at Arts Incubator, Kansas City, MO, 1.07 Resolutions 07, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1.07 Art and Design on Film Series, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1.07
2006 Nihilist Film Festival, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 10.06 Reel Venus Film Festival, Symphony Space, New York, NY, 8.06 Last Call Film Festival, Louisville, KY, 7.06 Red Saw Filmideo Series, Red Saw Gallery, Newark NJ, 4.06
2005 Lower West Side Film Festival, New York, NY, 4.05 Ms Films Festival, Durham, NC, 2.05
2004 (excerpt) Animation Block Party, Office Ops, Brooklyn, NY, 9.04 (excerpt) LoveSick, SCALO project space, New York, NY,10.04 Head First, SCALO project space, New York, NY 7.04
Mooney CV 6 20,000 Leagues Under the Film Industry, Cleveland, OH, 10.04 VideoKronik Festival of Music Videos, Cleveland, OH, 4.04
2003 I’m Loving You, Me?, Video Show, Cleveland, OH 2.03
2002 Underneath Cincinnati, SS Nova Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, 8.02 Don’t Move, Stop Motion Animation Video Show, Cleveland, OH, 2.02
2001 Red Square Video Show, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, 9.01
2000 Red Square Video Show, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2.00 DAAP Film & Video Show, 2.00
IN-PROGRESS WORK – NON-DIRECTORIAL 2017/18 Post-Supervisor, Editor, Helpless, Narrative Short, 14 min, Dir: Charles Swanson. In post finishing stage
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS & DISTRIBUTION – NON-DIRECTORIAL (Editor, Producer, Cinematographer) 2020 Editor, The Sleeping Negro, Narrative Feature, 83 min., Dir: Skinner Myers
2019/20 Editor/Graphics, One Minute Musical, Musical short, 1:10 min Dir: Tommy O’Haver 30/30 VISION: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing Film Program 2020: Maryland Film Festival (Baltimore, MD) Ashland Independent Film Festival (Ashland, OR) 2019: The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN) The Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus Ohio) The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) The Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA) The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA)
2018/19 Editor, Bull Mountain Lookout, Narrative Short, 15 min., Dir: Vanessa Newell 2019: Death’s Parade Horror Film Festival (San Jose, CA) Hollywood Shorts (Los Angeles, CA) Women Over 50 Film Festival (UK) Women Texas Film Festival (Dallas, TX) Etheria Film Night National Touring Program Oregon Scream Week (Portland, OR) Winner: Best Horror Comedy Motor City Nightmares (Detroit, MI) USA Film Festival (Dallas, TX) New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival (Atlantic City, NJ) First Glance Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) Pride Film Festival (Chicago, IL)
Mooney CV 7 Ocean City Film Festival (Ocean City, MD) Spokane International Film Festival (Spokane, WA) Winner: Best Narrative Short 2018: University Film and Video Association (Las Cruces, NM)
2018/19 Editor, Quiver, Narrative Short, 12 min, Dir: Shayna Connelly 2019: Stuff MX (Mexico City, Mexico) Philip K. Dick Festival Europe (Lille, France) Fargo Fantastic Film Festival (Fargo, ND) Hell de Janeiro 2019 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Minikino Film Festival (Bali, Indonesia) Chicago Southland International Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Winner: Nighttime Thrills Award Ravenheart Film Festival (Oslo, Norway) Scumdance (Reno, NV) Prokuplje Film Festival (Prokuplje, Serbia) Fixion Fest, Fantastic and Horror Film Festival (Santiago, Chile) Inca Imperial International Film Festival (Lima, Peru) The Psychedelic and Trans-personal Film and Music Festival (New York City, NY) Paracinema Shorts (Derby, UK) West Virginia Moutaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, WV) Chattanooga Film Festival (Chattanooga, TN) Motor City Nightmares Film Festival (Detroit, MI) Deep in the Heart Film Festival (Waco, TX) Nominated for Best Horror Short Third Eye Film Festival (New York, NY) Balcan Can Kino Festival (Athens, Greece) New Renaissance Film Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Nominated for Best Horror Short Underground Film Festival (La Spezia, Italy) Chicago Filmmakers (Chicago, IL) Reels of the Dead (Atlanta, GA) Winner: Best Short Film Tally Shorts (Tallahassee, FL) South Texas Underground Film Festival (Corpus Christi, TX) Winner: Best Sisterhood Horror Mondo Cult Film Variety Showcase (Los Angeles, CA) 2018: Kinomorphia (Sofia, Bulgaria) Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival (Tampa, FL) Winner: Best Short Film Rising Above Fest (Los Angeles, CA) Waterford Film Festival (Waterford, Ireland) ProxyAct Festival (Berlin, Germany) YoFiFest Film Festival (Yonkers, NY) Reading Film Fest (Reading, PA) Cinema at the Edge (Santa Monica, CA) Morbido Film Festival (Mexico City, Mexico) Spooky Empire International Horror Film Festival (Orlando, FL) Teros Gallery (San Diego, CA) Spooky Empire International Horror Film Festival (Orlando, FL)
Mooney CV 8 ProxyAct Festival (Berlin, Germany) Halloween Horror Picture Show (Tampa, FL) Cinema at the Edge (Santa Monica, CA) YoFiFest Film Festival (Yonkers, NY) Reading Film Fest (Reading, PA) Orlando Film Festival (Orlando, FL) The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image (NYC, NY) Winner – Best of Dark Themes, Best Editing, Best Sound Design, Best Cinematography Planet 9 Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Women in Horror Film Festival (Peachtree City, GA) Winner – Best Experimental Horror Short Kansas International Film Festival (Kansas City, KS) Sick Chick Flicks (Cary, NC) Halloween Horror Picture Show (Tampa, Fl) Adirondack Film Festival (Glens Falls, NY) Videoscream International Film Festival (Portland, OR) Winner – Most Original Concept Toronto Independent Film Festival (Toronto, Canada) Figueira FilmArt (Figueiro do Foz, Portugal) San Diego Underground Film Festival (San Diego, CA) Chicago Park District (Chicago, IL) Oceanside Film Festival (San Diego, CA) Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival (Seattle, WA) San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (San Francisco, CA) Windy City International Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Cinepocalypse (Chicago, IL) Cosmic Film Festival (Orlando, FL) Berlin Short Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) Best Horror Short Snake Alley Film Festival (Burlington, IA) Eve Film Festival (Ottawa, ON, Canada) The International Horror Hotel Film Festival (Cleveland, OH) Honorable Mention Nominated for Best Editing Weird Wednesdays (Stuttgart, Germany) Port Orchard Film Festival (Port Orchard, WA) Madeira Film Festival (Madeira, Portugal) Sunderland Shorts (Sunderland, England) Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH) Academy Award Qualifier Azalea Film Festival (Mobile, AL) Toronto Short Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada) HorrorHound Film Festival (Cincinnati, OH) Columbus International Film and Animation Festival (Columbus, OH) Chicago Feminist Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (Idyllwild, CA)
2017/18 Producer, Every Ghost has an Orchestra, Documentary Short, 7 min, Dir: Shayna Connelly 2019: International Freethought Film Festival (Pittsburgh, PA) West Virginia Moutaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, WV)
Mooney CV 9 Sunderland Shorts (Sunderland, England) Philip K. Dick Science Fiction and Supernatural Film Festival (Santa Ana, CA) Midwest Weirdfest (Eau Claire, WI) Winner: Best Documentary Short Chicago Filmmakers (Chicago, IL) Mothlight Cinema (Detroit, MI) Cellular Cinema (Minneapolis, MN) 2018: Videodrunk Film Festival (Toronto, Ont, CA) Ithaca Fantastik Film Festival (Ithaca, NY) Winner: Necessary Voices Award The Valley Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) Antimatter [Media Art] (Vancouver, BC, Canada) FilmScene, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) Planet 9 Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Bezazian Library (Chicago, IL) Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Square Lake Film and Music Festival (Stillwater, MN) NorthWest Film Forum (Seattle, WA) Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA) Beverly Arts Center (Chicago, IL) Block Cinema (Evanston, IL) Nightingale Cinema (Chicago, IL) San Francisco Frozen Film Festival (San Francisco, CA) Walla Walla Movie Crush (Walla Walla, WA) Palm Springs International ShortFest (Palm Springs, CA) Academy Award Qualifying Category Interrobang Film Festival (Des Moines, IA) Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL) Derby Film Festival (Derby, UK) Blackbird Film Festival (Cortland, NY) Single Frame Film Festival (Durham, NC) Trenton Film Festival (Trenton, NJ) Big Sky Documentary Festival (Missoula, MT) Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL) Winner: Best Documentary Short Deep in the Heart Film Festival (Waco, TX) South Texas Underground (Corpus Christi, TX) docLAHOMA Film Festival (Oklahoma City, OK) Headline International Film Festival (Vancouver, CA) Merit Award 2017: British Documentary Festival (London, England) Tampa Bay Underground (Tampa, FL) Red Rock Film Festival (Cedar City, UT) Milwaukee Paranormal Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Great Lakes International Film Festival (Erie, PA) Adirondack Film Festival (Glenn Falls, NY) The Awareness Festival (Los Angeles, CA) Merit Award of Awareness Bushwick Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY) Atlanta Docu-fest Semi-Finalist (Atlanta, GA)
Mooney CV 10 The Moonrise Film Festival (Wells, BC, Canada) Southern New York Paranormal Expo (Birminghm, NY) Sydney Underground Film Festival (Sydney, AU) Whitespace Gallery Short Shorts (Atlanta, GA) San Diego Underground Film Festival (San Diego, CA) Oceanside Film Festival (Oceanside, CA) Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival (Seattle, WA) Middle Coast Film Festival (Bloomington, IN) Winner: Best Documentary Short Still Voices Short Film Festival (Ballymahon Co. Longford, Ireland) Cardiff Mini Film Festival (Cardiff, Wales) Snake Alley Film Festival (Burlington, IA) Brooklyn Film Festival (New York City, NY) San Francisco Documentary Festival (San Francisco, CA) Tulsa Overground Film Festival (Tulsa, OK) Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX) – Cinema 16 selection South London Shorts (London, UK) Port Orchard Film Festival (Port Orchard, WA) Canton Film Festival (Canton, OH) Columbus International Film + Video Festival (Columbus, OH) Winner: Humanities Division Award of Distinction Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH) Unrestricted View Film Festival (London, UK) South Georgian Bay Film Festival (Wasaga Beach, Canada) Winner: Silver Award for International Documentary Azalea Film Festival (Mobile, AL) Moving Pictures Film Festival (Antwerp, Belgium) Third Bohemian Artists Retreat (Chicago, IL)
2017 Editor, My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen, Promotional Book Trailer, 1 min, Dir: Marc Pitre Online release through publisher - Sky Pony Press
2016 Cinematographer/Production Sound, Hanging Out with Norm Macdonald The Washington Post lifestyle/arts piece featured in two lifestyle articles in 2016 (February and August)
2015 Co-Editor, Bug Bites, TV pilot, Dir. Topher Putnam Kids show TV pilot picked up for series by American Public Media
2014 Editor, Othello, Narrative Short, Dir: Mikael Kreuzriegler University Film and Video Association, Washington, DC, 2015
Producer, Editor, Stage Three, Narrative Short, 28min, Dir: Wendy Roderweiss Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH) Cincinnati Film Festival (Cincinnati, OH)
2013 Cinematographer, Editor, Zero Fade, Promotional Book Trailer, 1 min, Dir: Chris L. Terry & students in Storycatchers Theater Youth Program Online release through publisher Curbside Splendor
Cinematographer, Motion Graphics, Blunt Force Trauma, Narrative Short, 7 min,
Mooney CV 11 Dir: Shayna Connelly University Film and Video Association, (Washington, D.C.) Wonka Ball Shorts Program (Chicago, IL) Invitation only screening Iowa City International Documentary Festival (Iowa City, IA) Honorable Mention, Best Short Documentary Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH) Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL) Orbits Screening (Chicago, IL) Invitation only screening
2011 Visual Effects Editor, Wait for Amateur, Music Video, 3 min, Dir: Shayna Connelly Premiered on Magnet Magazine website North By Northeast (Toronto, CA) CIMMfest (Chicago, IL) Mexico International Film Festival (Baja, Mexico) Bronze Palm Award Canada Film Festival (Vancouver, Canada) Award of Excellence In Filmmaking Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival (Chicago, IL) Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX) World Music and Independent Film Festival (Washington, DC)
GRANTS 2019 University Rains Research Assistant Grant
2018 University Rains Research Assistant Grant
Academy Member Engagement Grant Program
SFTV Research Grant
2017 New Faculty Start Up Fund
University Rains Research Assistant Grant
DISTRIBUTION & ARCHIVES 2020 One Minute Musical The Criterion Channel (streaming channel release) As part of the 30/30 VISION: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing Film Program 2018 Every Ghost has an Orchestra Full Spectrum Features Vimeo on Demand - Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 4 Program 2017 Joanie 4 Jackie Miranda July’s DIY Feminist Video Archive at the Getty Research Institute. Short film on the M.I.A. Chainletter Tape. 2016 Bug Bites TV Pilot broadcast on PBS Kids markets nationwide 2013 Festival of (In)Appropriation #5 Short Film DVD Collection
Mooney CV 12 PRESENTATIONS, JURIES & PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS 2020 Guest Curator, We Make Movies International Film Festival Juror, Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival (postponed due to Covid-19)
2019 Presenter and Respondent, University of Film and Video Association, Minneapolis, MN • Presented new media piece Memory Distrust • Presented peer response to J. Zaylea’s This is “I”
2018 Juror, GNG Green Earth Film Festival Presenter and Respondent, University of Film and Video Association, Las Cruces, NM • Presented short film The Story of Everything, • Presented three-channel art installation Yellow Persona • Presented peer response to J. Kraemer’s Family Medicine • Presented peer response to K. Hayward’s in-progress web series and multimedia world Lunar Estates
Visiting Artist, Driver Lecture Series, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA § Presented short film The Story of Everything during a public lecture. § Gallery installation & opening of three channel piece Yellow Persona. § Class visit to discuss film production and how to shape a short documentary.
2017 Juror, Narrative Features, Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, LA, CA Juror, Sound of Silent Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2016 Presenter and Respondent University of Film and Video, Las Vegas, NV • Presented short film Reunion • Presented peer response to J. Otterbacher’s film Officially Limited
Reviewer, The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice 6th Edition, for Focal Press/Routledge Publishing
2013 Juror, Video Fest, Winnetka Public Library Youth Film Festival
2012 Lecture Presentation: Festivals and Distribution, DePaul University Juror, Video Fest, Winnetka Public Library Youth Film Festival
2011 Juror, Video Fest, Winnetka Public Library Youth Film Festival
2010 Artist Presentation, Division Collective Salon Artist Presentation, Portraiture in Literature in Film, School of the Art Institute Lecture Presentation: My Cat Could Eat a Whole Watermelon: On the Road with Rubin and Ed, Facets Night School Juror, Video Fest, Winnetka Public Library Youth Film Festival
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2009 Juror, Video Fest, Winnetka Public Library Youth Film Festival
CURATED EVENTS 2019 Co-Director, REVENGE OF GRRRLS ON FILM Film screenings and panel events. A one-night event exploring the intersections and divergences of punk, gender, race, feminism, film, and music. Screenings of Stories from the She-Punks, and Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, and a panel discussion with Vivien Goldman, Sandra Izsadore, Alice Bag, and Drew Arriola Sands.
2018 Co-Director, CINEMA ON THE FRINGE: Representation and Transformation of the 1960’s Film Industry A two-evening event featuring scholar Dr. Elena Gorfinkel presenting her book Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s and the film VIVA with filmmaker Anna Biller.
2015-2016 Co-Director, GRRRLS ON FILM, Interdisciplinary Film & Music Festival A three-day celebration of the feminist act of making sound and vision featuring filmmakers, musicians and activists including Penelope Spheeris, Karyn Kusama, Lizzie Borden, Vega Darling, Floria Sigismondi, Jill Reiter, Phranc, Alice Bag, Abby Moser, Alison Wolfe, Kari Krome, Peach Kelli Pop, and Kim and the Created. Five Screenings, One Performance, Two Panels, One Concert co- produced with KXLU (on campus radio station). Curricular tie-in with over 15 classes across campus community and disciplines.
2011 Co-Director, NIGHT MOVIES screening series Spring series: Movies about Making Movies: Tristam Shandy, Real Life, Beware of a Holy Whore, Irma Vep, Camera Buff, Man Bites Dog
Winter series: Alienation, Disconnection, Dissolution: Red Desert, Three Women, Naked, Persona, Safe, Seconds
2007 Curator, ALL OVER THE PLACE #4, Video Art & Underground Film Series Featuring the comedy/performance films of bLoNd cHiLi (director/actor Andre Hyland) and Hy-Deff.
Curator, ALL OVER THE PLACE #3, Video Art & Underground Film Series Featuring filmmakers and music videos by Shana Moulton, Christy Pessagno & Julie Mack, Sophia Peer, Castle Danger, Diane Derr, Negativland & Tim Mahoney, Brenda Jean Grell, Michelle Leftheris, Reverend Jen, Andre Hyland, Laura Herman
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2003 Curator, ALL OVER THE PLACE #2, Video Art & Underground Film Series Featuring filmmakers and music videos by Fenslerfilms, Rachael Shuman, Hanna Maria Anttila, Michelle Leftheris, Sho Nikiado, Catherine Goodheart, Kevin Vincent, Alexander Rose, Stephanie LaVigne, Mindy Abovitz
Co-Curator, ALL OVER THE PLACE, Video Art & Underground Film Series Featuring filmmakers and music videos by Mike Olenick, Liisa Lounila, Mike Olenick, Peter Woods & Natalja Kent, Audrey Heimgartner, Stephen McCarty, Aurora, Kathleen Coppola, Fat Nick/Anonymous Skateboards
2002 Co-Curator, 2X5: Shorts Made by Women, Cincinnati Women’s Film Festival w/ Laura Herman. Featuring Denise Burge, Kelly Coats, Dame Darcy, Courtney Egan, Gregory/Murphy, Gretchen Hague, Miranda July, Kristen Sprague, Diane Teramana
2001 Curator, Women Make Music Videos, Cincinnati Women’s Film Festival Featuring filmmakers Miranda July, Sadie Benning, Tamra Davis, Tracy and the Plastics, Sarah Jacobsen, Suki Hawley, Olga Matlin, Emily Kingan, Karen Lamond, Natalie MacGowan Spencer
PRESS Randolph College Driver Lecture Series Artist interview with Lynchburg, VA City Paper News and Advance (cover of the lifestyle section) http://www.newsadvance.com/the_burg/features/experimental-filmmaker- sharon-mooney-to-speak-at-randolph-college/article_a4440d32-fc7a-5049-b4ff- f635dfbedf19.html
Joanie 4 Jackie Archive & Getty Research Institute Collection MIA CHAINLETTER TAPE – Where is she now? http://www.joanie4jackie.com/now/sharon-mooney/ Contribution to the event listings: http://www.joanie4jackie.com/event/wexner/
Grrrls on Film Festival Grimy Goods, “Interviews with Evelyn McDonnell, Penelope Spheeris & Vega Darling: We talk Grrrls on Film, Feminism, Punk Rock & More,” (online), http://www.grimygoods.com/2016/03/18/interview-evelyn-mcdonnell-penelope- spheeris-vega-darling-grrrls-on-film/, March 18, 2016
Hannah Ongley/id-vice, “grrrls on film: 4 trailblazing female directors on why filmmaking is a feminist act,” (online), http://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/grrrls-on-
Mooney CV 15 film-4-trailblazing-female-directors-on-why-filmmaking-is-a-feminist-act, March 17, 2016
Artemis Thomas-Hansard/LA Weekly, “Two Riot Grrrl College Professors Are Doing Something Cool at LMU,” (online), http://www.laweekly.com/arts/two-riot-grrrl- college-professors-are-doing-something-cool-at-lmu-6716674, March 17, 2016
Christina Campodonico/The Argonaut, “Grrrls on Film Feminism in Focus at LMU,” (online and print), http://argonautnews.com/grrls-on-film-feminism-in-focus-at- lmu/, March 16, 2016
Julie Porter/Loglines, “Grrrl in Focus: Sharon Mooney,” (online), http://sftvnewsroom.lmu.edu/grrrl-in-focus-sharon-mooney/, March 7, 2016
Film works Natasha Chuk/All the Best, Alice, SVA Magazine, Alumni Spotlight, “The Inbetweeness of Cinema,” (online and print), https://issuu.com/mfaphoto/docs/alicemag2014_complete_pdf, Spring 2014
Karina Longworth/LA Weekly, “Festival of (In)appropriation Goes Beyond the Mash-up,”(online), http://www.laweekly.com/film/festival-of-in-appropriation- goes-beyond-the-mash-up-2612031, November 8, 2012
Ben Steelman/Star News Online, “Ben on Film – Try mix of big-name, indie films at Cucalorus,” (online), http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20091111/ben-on- film---try-mix-of-big-name-indie-films-at-cucalorus, November 11, 2009
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS Best of Conference, New Media, Memory Distrust, UFVA 2019, Minneapolis, MN Best Cinematography, The Story of Everything, Innuendo Film Festival 2019, Milan, IT Best Editing, Quiver, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2019, NYC, NY Best Documentary Short, Every Ghost has an Orchestra, The Big Muddy Film Festival, 2018 Best Documentary Short, Every Ghost has an Orchestra, Middle Coast Film Festival, 2017 Humanities Division Award of Distinction, Every Ghost has an Orchestra, Columbus Intl Film + Video Festival, 2017 Silver Award for International Documentary, Every Ghost has an Orchestra, South Georgian Bay Film Festival, 2017 Spotlight Short Film Awards – Silver, Reunion, 2015 Paula Rhodes Award of Excellence, Automatic, The School of Visual Arts, 2007
OTHER EXPERIENCE 2019 Razorcake Magazine, Annual Fundraiser Video wrote, filmed, and edited fundraising video for non-profit magazine drive.
Mooney CV 16 2016 The Washington Post, Freelance Production Sound/Videographer responsible for a three-camera, three-microphone shoot documenting comedian Norm MacDonald watching the Super Bowl for a lifestyle piece.
2015 Bug Bites, PBS Kids, Freelance Video Editor responsible for co-editing the pilot for a hybrid live action/animated STEM kids show TV pilot currently airing in national PBS markets.
2010-2013 DePaul University, TV Production Manager responsible for upgrading the SD broadcast studio to HD. Maintained and expanded the studio. Built a streaming network to showcase student work. Setup live-streaming infrastructure for Visiting Artist Series. Developed and taught workshops for the professors in the College of Communications to build their skills with various forms of multimedia (audio, video, web, etc.) with the goal to integrate these technologies into their current curricula.
2012 Boys and Girls Club, Gala Film Documentary, Freelance Video Editor responsible for creating a short documentary focused on the Chicago Boys and Girls Club facility.
2011 Scientivity, Freelance After Effects Production Artist responsible for after effects design and animation for pharmaceutical product videos.
2009-2010 Embanet+Compass Knowledge Group, Instructional designer, Media & Web Developer responsible for the assessment, design, development, and evaluation of 100% online courses. Conceptualized and storyboarded instructionally sound, interactive, engaging web-based course learning objects. Developed and coded fully functional embedded websites (HTML and CSS) to deliver online content. Collaborated with faculty members to develop instructionally sound and actionable learning objectives with supportive, active learning activities. Developed and implemented university standards guides for front and back end development for online classes. Clients included Rochester Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Vanderbilt University, George Washington University, Ohio University, Kent State University.
2008-2009 New Trier Township High School, Multimedia Manager responsible for the overall technical, operational and creative direction of the district's AV/Multimedia division, including the TV studio, cable TV channel, podcasting, vid-casting, video-on-demand on website, digital signage, video conferencing, multimedia production areas, and campus AV centers.
Mooney CV 17 Responsible for linking these areas to each other, as well as connecting the entire division to the rest of the district by supporting academic departments in the use of multimedia in classrooms and computer labs. Responsible for editing, re-branding & creating station graphics (still and motion), and seeking out national youth-produced programming. Responsible for managing a staff of five.
2008 Towers Productions, Freelance Video Editor responsible for editing climate change project to support a university symposium.
2007-2008 Macy’s Inc., Video Editor, New Media Producer Responsible for editing, motion graphics, coding, and design video, DVD, web, and multimedia projects for Macy's Inc. and clients such as Lucky Brand Denim, DKNY, IZOD, Lacoste, Calvin Klein, etc.
2007-2008 MyHHTV.com, Freelance Video Editor responsible for editing original programming for an online streaming network startup focused on hip-hop culture and music.
2003-2007 School of Visual Arts, Systems Support Administrator responsible for administration of a Macintosh based, multi-user digital imaging and motion graphics graduate lab with professional digital scanners, printers, and editing stations. Responsible for purchasing, hardware and software maintenance and upgrades; fiscal year budgeting; basic Mac OSX Server workgroup maintenance, organizing and implementing workshops, custom color calibration and management; database management; media management; event/lecture setup and support; upgrading and repair of lab facilities and Digital Output Center, a fee-based large-format digital printing and high end digital scanning center. Responsible for hiring, training, and managing a graduate student staff of four, consultation with faculty for classroom and curriculum needs, research on digital imaging trends.
1999-2002 University of Cincinnati, Blue Ash, Studio/Lab Manager, Video Editor responsible for management, maintenance, and repair of student equipment and lab facilities; class logistics, software maintenance and upgrades, equipment and facilities database management. Responsible for in-house Avid editing, production management of video projects and Avid system maintenance.
1998-1999 WCPO-TV, Channel 9, Studio Production Assistant/Chyron-Still Store/Camera Operator responsible for electronic graphic construction and operation for live and taped broadcasts; studio lighting and setup; set design and construction; camera operation for live and taped broadcasts; grip and graphic work for commercial production.
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