Karen Dillon (filmmaker)

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Karen Dillon is a filmmaker, educator and arts administrator who is currently the Executive Director of the Chandler Center for the Arts.[1] Prior to coming to the Chandler, Dillon was the executive director of the Green Mountain Film Festival.[2]

Dillon is a film educator who has taught filmmaking and screenwriting at Columbia University, Princeton, and the University of Kansas.[3] She worked in Abu Dhabi teaching film to women in college.[2]

Her film script Perfect Attendance won the Gerhard Zuther Memorial Award in 1997.[4] In 2001 her film script, Birds With Teeth won a screenwriting award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.[3]

Personal life[]

Dillon was born in Ulysses, Kansas.[3] She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in film directing from Columbia University.[3] She is married to film educator Stephen Pite.[2] They live on a small farm in West Berlin Vermont.[2][5]

References[]

  1. ^ Release, Press (2019-05-10). "Chandler welcomes new executive director Karen Dillon". VTDigger. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  2. ^ a b c d Mills, Stephen (August 17, 2017). "New film fest director just the right fit". Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Brunswick Publishing, LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d "People". Sloan Science & Film. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  4. ^ "Gerhard Zuther Memorial Award for Dramatic Scriptwriting". Department of Theatre & Dance. 2013-06-18. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  5. ^ Wallace-Brodeur, Jeb (May 12, 2018). "Sowing wild goats". Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Brunswick Publishing, LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
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