Victoria Mudd

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Victoria Mudd (born May 5, 1946 in Los Angeles ) is an American documentary filmmaker .

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Victoria Mudd grew up in Hancock Park, a district of Los Angeles , and attended the Marlborough School there. She then studied anthropology at Stanford University and graduated in 1968 with a master's degree. She then obtained a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) from the Antioch Graduate School in 1971. She then went on a trip to Nepal, which aroused her interest in the Tibetans , about whom she later made a documentary.

Influenced by the work of Frances H. Flaherty , Mudd turned to the film industry. She graduated from the American Film Institute 's directing program . In 1980 she founded Earthworks Films Inc. with Maria Florio , a graphic designer and former photographer at National Geographic , to produce documentaries. Her first film, Broken Rainbow , was about the forcible relocation of thousands of Navajo people for economic reasons. Mudd and Florio received an Oscar in the category of best documentary film in 1986 for this production .

Together with Tom and Sue Peosay (Zambuling Pictures), who had already shot in Tibet, Mudd and Florio produced the documentary film Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion , which thematizes the life of Tibetans after the Chinese invasion and shows footage of the Dalai Lama . The film took a total of ten years to make and nine trips to Tibet. From 2002 he ran at various festivals.

Mudd taught from 2006 to 2010 as a professor of media studies at Pitzer College in Claremont . She gives lectures and workshops on the representation of Indians in Hollywood films.

Filmography

  • 1985: Broken Rainbow
  • 2002: Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
  • 2005: Findhorn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Janna Bodek Harris: Marlborough Alumna Presents “The Myth of the Hollywood Indian” at Ebell Lunch Today. In: Larchmont Buzz , February 11, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ Casa Newsletter, Vol. 4, Number 1, 2003/4, p. 17 ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. web.stanford.edu. Retrieved January 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.stanford.edu
  3. ↑ Filmmaker Speaks on Native American Images at AUNE Speaker Series April 3. In: Antioch University website, March 21, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Nicole Viger Passionate pursuit Antioch graduate and documentary filmmaker brings Tibet film to Keene. In: The Keene Sentinel October 7, 2004. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  5. ^ John Voland: Navajo Move Focus Of Documentary. In: Los Angeles Times March 12, 1986. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Company ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. earthworksfilms.com. Retrieved January 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.earthworksfilms.com
  7. ^ The 58th Academy Awards 1986 oscars.org. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  8. ↑ Lecture: "Indians in film and TV" Calendar Montana State University. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mudd, Victoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles