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        Cauleen Smith Resume Born 1967. Riverside, California. Lives and works in San Diego, California. SOLO SHOWS / FESTIVALS SCREENINGS 2008 THE FULLNESS OF TIME. New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. THE FULLNESS OF TIME. The Kitchen. 2007 NTSC. Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX NEBULAE/Austin, One Night Only! MASS Gallery. Austin, TX. May 31, 2007. Right Hand Only Left Hand Lonely. 3 Walls Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. March, 2007. 2006 I Want To See My Skirt In Collaboration with poet, Aaron Van Jordan. Commissioned by Fluent~Collaborative testsite. Austin, TX. 2006. 2000 DRYLONGSO – Abbreviated List Urbanworld Film Festival. Awarded Best Feature Film. Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival. Awarded Best Feature Film. Philadelphia International Film Festival. Berlin Film Market. IFP Selection. 1999   DRYLONGSO. Sundance Film Festival. American Spectrum. 1998 DRYLONGSO. Hamptons Film Festival. Competition. GROUP SHOWS and Screenings 2008 Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. NEVER HAS SHE EVER…. Mason Gross Galleries. Rutgers University. Spectacle Spectacular. Curated by Ben Coonley and Michael Smith. Light Industry. New York, NY. City Stage. Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA. Selections ’08. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 2007 Texus Nexus. Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, TX. Lone Star Video. The Center for Contemporary Art. Tel-Aviv, Isreal. 2006 20MB SHOW. Mass Gallery. Austin, TX. The Bungalow Project. Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio, TX. The Carbonist School Study Hall. Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery. Atlanta, GA. You Were Never Here.  Soap Factory. Minneapolis, MI. Boundless: Perception From Within.  Dougherty Arts Center. Austin, TX. You Wear It Well: Short Films about Fashion and Beauty Around the World. Cinespace. Los Angeles, CA. 2005 CANYON CINEMA: Bay Area Film. Anthology Film Archives. New York, NY. 2004    Cinema de Baile, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2003 Kunstkanaal, Netherlands Television. 2001 Race in Digital Space. Studio Museum of Harlem  and  M.I.T. List Center for Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA. Bay Area Avant-GardE Film: Then And Now. Los Angeles County Museum Of Art. Los Angeles, CA. 1994 Bad Girls Show.  New Museum, New York. Shorts program. Pan-African Festival, Milan Italy. 1993 Inaugural Show. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. SHORTS PROGRAM. London Film Festival. 1992 Independent Light. San Francisco Cinemateque. SHORTS PROGRAM. Philadelphia International Film Festival. Flaherty Film Seminar. GRANTS / AWARDS 2008 Creative Capital Film/Video Grant James D. Phelan Art Award in Film, Video, and Digital Media. San Francisco Foundation. 2007 Artmatters Foundation. 2006 University of Texas Dean’s Fellowship. University of Texas Summer Research Grant. National Black Programming Consortium. New Media Initiative. 2005 Rockefeller Technical Support Grant. Texas Filmmaker Production Fund Grant. University of Texas Office of Research Special Research Grant. 2004    Tribeca All-Access Participant. 2001 Urbanworld Film Festival. Best Feature Film. Participant. Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab. Winter.   Participant. Sundance Institute Writer’s Lab. Summer. Participant. Sundance Institute Director’s Lab.  Participant.  2002    Texas Exes Teacher of the Year. 2000 Urbanworld Film Festival. Awarded Best Feature Film. Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival. Awarded Best Feature Film. Independent Spirit Awards: Nomination: Best Debut performance. Winner: Movado Someone to Watch Award. 1998 Hamptons Film Festival. Awarded Honorable Mention. 1994 Rockefeller Inter cultural Media Arts Fellowship. American Film Institute Film and Videomaker Grant. National Black Programming Consortium Funding. Western States Regional Fellowships. 1993 National Black Programming Consortium. Special Merit Award. 1992 Film Arts Foundation Personal Works Grant. PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS / WRITINGS 2008 New York Times. Lim, Dennis. August 15, 2008. “The Angry Flood and the Stories in Its Wake.” Artlies, Contemporary Art Journal. Issue 57. Richter, Till. “Cauleen Smith: NTSC.” 2007 Austin Chronicle. NOVEMBER 2, 2007: ARTS. Moore, Nikki. “Cauleen Smith, NTSC.” 2006 Dallas Morning News. January 22, 2006. Brooks, Karen. “'Lampoon' schools students on Grade A comedy.” Black Issues Book Review. March 1, 2006. Dodson, Angela P. “Third Girl film deal. Code Z Online.com. November 6, 2006. Hicks, Cinque. “Betwixt and Between.” Artlies, Contemporary Art Journal. Issue 53. Lozano, Ivan. “Cauleen Smith and A. Van Jordan: I Want To See My Skirt”. Glasstire.com. http://live.glasstire.com/index.December. Rachel Cook. “Four shows from Austin and SA”. might be good…, Issue #73. July 14, 2006. http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/ Smith, Cauleen.  “Call Me Frank,” 2003 The Independent Film and Video Monthly. (August): 25-29. Smith, Cauleen. “Counter Currents and the Joy Quotient,” 2001 Filmmaker Magazine. Winter Issue: 35-38.  2001 Smith, Cauleen. “Wings Off Desire: A conversation with Kasi Lemmons,” 2000 Filmmaker Magazine. Spring Issue. Editorial. “Twenty-five to Watch” 1999 The Independent Film and Video Monthly. (February): 40. 1999 “Dogma,” 1993 A Critical Cinema Volume 3. University of California Press. MacDonald, Scott. “Cauleen Smith on Chronicles of a Lying Spirit. “ Cineaste.  June 22, 1993. Williams, John. “Re-creating their media image: two generations of black women filmmakers.”       http://live.glasstire.com/index.Decemberhttp://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/http://www.me.com/Blog/Blog.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
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