Michelle Parkerson
1. Michelle Parkerson is much more than a producer. She is also a poet, writer and known as an activist. Michelle was born in Washington D.C. She Later attended Temple University in PA. There she studied filmmaking. Her first achievement came while at Temple when she received a "Student Oscar" for her film Sojourn. She then did many films for Public Television. On many sites it was said that her biggest hit so to say was But Then, She's Betty Carter, which came out in 1980. She now today is a professor at Temple University.
2. Michelle has a long list o f films she has worked on. It includes: But Then, She's Betty Carter- It is a documentary about Betty Carter who is a jazz vocalist. Gotta Make This Journey-Showed a story about a black womens capella ensemble. Urban Odyssey-This about a black biker and his journey. The newest is Odds and Ends- about black Amazon warriors in the year 2096 and their struggles. This is not all of her Films but a good chunk of them.
3. I tried to view some of her work but I could not find anything without purchasing it. There is alot of information on what the movies are about and their plot descriptions but I could not find a place where i could even view a short piece of any of her films.
4. I found all the information on Michelle Parkerson by typing in Independent women filmmakers into Google. It produced alot of information for me. I then Looked at many of the women and thought that Michelle was the most interesting because not only was she African-American she is also lesbian and she was working at a time where being both of those things was not accepted. However, I got most of my information from a site called Independent Women Filmmakers . I got Information about the films themselves from IMDB .
5. It was very easy to find women of "color" however since i chose someone from a little while back it was hard to find a place where i could view her work. I thought however, that this was the most interesting blog posts we have had to do. I enjoyed having to look at one of these filmmakers.
Erica Koby