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BIO Dr. Michelle Mohabeer is a Toronto based award winning film/video artist, Film Studies lecturer at University of Toronto-Scarborough, writer and curator. BLU IN YOU, (2008), her experimental essayist documentary has screened at the 24th Turino International LGBT film festival, Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference (USA), Film Studies Association of Canada conference (Vancouver), Crossroad Cultural Studies conference (University of West Indies, Jamaica) and Reel Sisters Diaspora Film Festival/Conference (New York). Prior films include: EXPOSURE (Five Feminist minutes omnibus collection from NFB), Coconut/Cane & Cutlass, Child- Play, Two/Doh, Tracing Soul and Echoes. Michelle Mohabeer and her films have been featured in the books: Femme Fatales: Independent Women Directors, The Romance of Transgression in Canada, North of Everything, and The Bent Lens, (amoung others). Mohabeer’s films have garnered numerous awards, mini- retrospectives and exhibitions in over 130 festivals, conferences and galleries worldwide and collected by over 60 universities, libraries, and galleries in the US, Canada and the Caribbean. Dr. Mohabeer earned her PhD in the Culture, Communication and Critical Education stream from (University of Toronto/OISE). She currently teaches Cinema and Media Studies courses in the English and Women’s Studies Department at University of Toronto- Scarborough. She has taught Film Studies at the University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, York University, Sheridan College, and film production at Ryerson University. She has participated in conferences as a presenter/ moderator and filmmaker in Canada, the US and the Caribbean. Currently, she is editing a critical film anthology In Between Spaces: Independent film and video by Indigenous and diasporic women media artists in Canada. Contact Info: Sales/Rentals ThirdEye Productions Michelle Mohabeer [email protected] www.bluinyou.com.

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