NADINE PATTERSON is an award winning independent writer/producer/director who works at the crossroads of narrative and documentary cinema.
Her training in theatre, immersion in documentary film, and intense study of world cinema enable her to create works grounded in historical contexts, with a unique visual palette. She earned her Master of Arts in Filmmaking at the London Film School. She operates the production and consulting company Harmony Image Productions with her mother Marlene G. Patterson. Through the company they make multicultural films and media content.
She is the Visiting Documentary Filmmaker at Robert Morris University in the Fall of 2016. Over the past 20 years she has taught video production at West Chester University, Temple University, Arcadia University, Drexel University, University of Western Sydney (Australia) and Scribe Video Center.
Some of her films include : “I Used to Teach English”, Winner Gold Apple Award 1994 National Educational Film/Video Festival, Oakland, CA; “Anna Russell Jones: Praisesong for a Pioneering Spirit”, Best Documentary 1993 African American Women in the Arts Film/Video Competition, Chicago, IL; “Moving with the Dreaming”, Prized Pieces award from the National Black Programming Consortium in 1997; “Todo El Mundo Dance!” selected for the 2001-2002 Council on Foundations Film and Video Festival. Other notable works include: “Shizue”, screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1991; and “Release” shown at the Constellation Change Dance Film Festival of London in 2006. She was the only filmmaker selected for The Biennial 2000 at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
She received funding for her film work from The Philadelphia Foundation, The National Black Programming Consortium, The Bartol Foundation, and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She was granted a 2010 fellowship in the arts to develop the feature film Tango Macbeth from the Independence Foundation. In 2011 she published her first book Always Emerging about her experiences as an independent filmmaker. In 2012 she completed her first feature narrative film Tango Macbeth which has screened in film festivals in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Mar del Plata Argentina and Paris France. In 2011 along with Ain Gordon and the Painted Bride Art Center she received a grant from the Pew Philadelphia Theater Initiative for the creation of a new work about forgotten historical places in Philadelphia. For three years Ms. Patterson curated the Trenton International Film Festival in 2010,2011,and 2012. In 2013 she was the first African American woman to write, direct and release a feature film of Shakespeare called Tango Macbeth. Tango Macbeth was featured in three film festivals in 2012 and will be on tour to New York, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Paris with the African Diaspora International Film Festival in 2013. Tango Macbeth was selected by Warrington Hudlin for his ‘Changing the Picture’ series at the Museum of the Moving Image in 2014.
In 2016 she founded the Abierto Media Fund of Bread & Roses to support socially conscious independent filmmakers in Pennsylvania. This fall she is the Visiting Documentary Filmmaker at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA.
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