Nadine
M. Patterson, M.A., M.S.
hipcinema@gmail.com
PROFILE
Nadine Patterson is an award winning independent
writer/producer/director who works at the crossroads of documentary and narrative
cinema. She has experience in media literacy and arts
education, multicultural programming, fundraising, community outreach, grant
writing, budgeting, strategic planning, research and development,
production management, public speaking and graphic design. Ms. Patterson is
able to work under pressure, solve problems, learn new skills, and work with a
team of people through complex tasks. She has worked as a cameraperson, video editor (CBS
KYW TV3), director and producer. She has computer competencies in using Microsoft
Office, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Creative Suite, and Wordpress. She is currently
working as Outreach Producer for Frances McElroy’s new documentary BLACK
BALLERINA.
ACADEMIC DEGREES
2005 Master
of Arts, Filmmaking
London Film
School/London Metropolitan University, London, UK
1998 Master
of Science, Instructional Media
West Chester
University, West Chester, PA
1986 Bachelor
of Arts, Drama
Franklin &
Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE (PARTIAL)
2016 - Visiting Documentary Filmmaker and Faculty
Present Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA (Pittsburgh Area)
1990- Instructor/Facilitator
2016 Scribe
Video Center, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Guest Lecturer
University
of Western Sydney, Sydney Australia
2000- Instructor, Video
Production
2001 Drexel University, Philadelphia,
PA
1993- Instructor,
Broadcast Television
1994 Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA
1990- Instructor, Video and Theater
1991 Arcadia
University, Glenside, PA
CURATION
(PARTIAL)
2010- Curator
2012 Trenton
International Film Festival, Trenton New Jersey
Three day
festival of diverse cinema from around the world
2004 Curator and Chair
of the Film Society
London
Film School, London, United Kingdom
RELEVANT
WORK EXPERIENCE
2014- Outreach Producer
Present Shirley Road Productions, Narbeth PA
Community engagement, strategic
planning for fundraising, and increasing social media presence of BLACK
BALLERINA. Advising on culturally specific content as well as technical issues.
During my tenure on the project BLACK BALLERINA has received a second National
Endowment for the Arts grant, a Women in Film Fund grant, and a grant from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
1990 -- Instructor/Facilitator
Present Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA
Through the creation of various
documentary and oral history projects taught workshop participants how to
write, produce, direct, shoot, record sound and edit their projects. Work
includes teaching high school students, the formerly incarcerated, concerned
parents, and adult learners new to video. Currently she is working as the
Coordinating Producer for Precious Places and the Great Migration Project. She
is also co-teaching with Sister Sonia Sanchez a course on making Haiku into
films.
2011- Photographer/Curator/Researcher
2013 Painted Bride Art Center & Pew
Philadelphia Theater Initiative
Philadelphia
International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), Philadelphia, PA
Collaborated on project about Black and White Women in the Abolitionist
Movement in mid 19th Century Philadelphia: play by Ain Gordon “If
She Stood”; exhibition curated and designed by Nadine Patterson “Freedom Fire
and Promiscuous Meetings”, artist included Sonia Sanchez, Lamont Steptoe,
Theodore A. Harris, Toni Nash, Sarah Bond, Gary Smalls, and Leon McDuffie.
1989-- Producer/Director/Technical Director
1998 School District of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, PA
Responsible
for production of live television programs aired on the school district’s cable channel. Shows included Elementary Chinese, Let's Speak Swahili, and Africa
in the Classroom. Technical Director for 4 live one hour programs telecast
via satellite to 48 states. Managed
National Endowment for the Humanities grant for co-production between the School District of
Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.
1993 -- Producer/Programmer
1994 WYBE TV 35 Public Television, Philadelphia PA
Producer Through the Lens Series
(1994). Screened and selected from over 200 films from around the world
to create 10 hours of programming;
handled contracts, designed show open
and closing; and produced ten one hour programs comprised of documentary,
narrative and experimental shorts and filmmaker interviews.
PRODUCTIONS (PARTIAL LISTING)
Standing on the Scratch Line (Great Migration Project/Scribe Video Center 2016) Coordinating Producer. Directed and Written by renown filmmaker Julie Dash, this lyrical alternative documentary tells the story of how history echoes to the past and present, North and South.
Tango Macbeth (Philadelphia, 2012, Feature Film, 73 minutes) Writer/Director/Camera
Tango Macbeth (Philadelphia, 2012, Feature Film, 73 minutes) Writer/Director/Camera
Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Screened at the Roxbury International Film Festival, Boston; and the
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival; African Diaspora International Film
Festival, New York, Chicago, Washington D.C. and Paris, France; MARFICI Mar del
Plata, Argentina; Sembene Film & Arts Festival Pittsburgh. The film is
currently in semi-theatrical release via Tugg.com.
Release (London, 2005, Super 16mm, 13:05) Writer/Director/Editor. This film is about the power of dance to
communicate the things that we cannot express in words. Husband and wife dance
couple separate when she pursues a career overseas. He stays behind to raise their daughter. In 2006 Release was screened as part of the
following film festivals: Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival in London,
the Dance Boom Film Festival in Philadelphia, the Roxbury Film Festival in
Boston, and the Denver Pan African Film Festival.
Lick Film (2004, 16mm, 2 min) Writer/Director. A short film about the editing process. Screened
at the Crane Arts Building in 2008 as part of the From Taboo to Icon show.
Cosmic Trane (Philadelphia,
2003, DVCAM, 14:00) Camera/Director
Produced through
Harmony Image Productions. Cosmic Trane is a 14-minute experimental video that
uses music, movement, visual art, and documentary footage to convey some of the
issues explored in John Coltrane’s music. Broadcast on WYBE TV 35 Public
Television as part of Philadelphia Stories.
LoqueeshaAshleyFranklinJoséBrown (2001, DV 18:00) Producer/Director/Camera/Editor. Produced by Harmony Image
Productions. An experimental documentary about children in Philadelphia, with
poetry by Ursula Rucker. Screened at the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester,
New York and the 24th Mill Valley Film Festival in California.
Broadcast on WYBE TV 35 Public Television – Philadelphia Stories.
Todo El Mundo
Dance! (2000,
DV 25:00) Instructor/Camera Produced through Scribe Video Center/Youth
History Project. A look at social dance
in the Latino and African American Communities of Philadelphia. Premiered on PBS affiliate on WHYY TV 12
Philadelphia, September 2000.
Africa in the
Classroom (1998-99,
4 one hour programs, live national telecast by satellite) Director/Producer. A joint project of the School District of
Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Four live one hour “call-in” programs looked
at various aspects of East African culture and history.
Moving with
the Dreaming (Australia
1997, 29:17) Director/Producer.
Produced through Harmony Image Productions.
Explores the cross-cultural collaboration between African Americans and
Aboriginal and Islander Australians in the area of modern dance and social
activism. Broadcast on public television
in Philadelphia PA and Tucson, Arizona.
Winner of a Prized Pieces award of the National Black Programming
Consortium 1997.
Anna Russell
Jones: Praisesong for a Pioneering
Spirit (1993,
26:00)
Writer/Director/Producer. Meet Mrs.
Anna Russell Jones, a textile designer in the1920’s and 30’s, a WAAC during
World War II, and a nurse in the 1950’s-
a professional career woman ahead of her times. Narrated by Toni Cade Bambara. Aired on WHYY TV 12. Winner of best
documentary African American Women in the Arts Film /Video Festival Chicago
1993.
I Used to
Teach English (1993,
18:00 Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation) Camera/Co-Director.
Profile of Marsha Pincus and her class of English / Playwrighting students at
Simon Gratz High School. Winner Gold
Apple Award National Educational Film/Video Festival 1994.
SHIZUE (1991, 18:00) Camera/Director. Written and Produced by Emiko Tonooka
through a workshop at Scribe Video Center. Emiko Tonooka searches for her half
sister, Shizue, in Japan.
Thirty-Eight
Twenty (1989,
6:00) Writer/Director. Produced
through a workshop at Scribe Video Center.
Portrait of Claudia and Martin Green, octogenarians reminisce about
their life together and the Great Black Migration North.
SCREENINGS (HIGHLIGHTS)
Museum of the Moving Image, “Changing the Game” series, Queens,
New York 2014
Tango Macbeth
African Diaspora International Film Festival, New York, Chicago,
Washington D.C.,
Paris, 2012-2013
Tango Macbeth
El
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata (MARFICI),
Argentina, 2013
Tango Macbeth
Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, 2012
Tango Macbeth
Roxbury International Film Festival, Boston 2012
Tango Macbeth
From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout / Ice Box Gallery
Philadelphia 2008
Philadelphia Child, Lick Film, The Gospel According to Trane
Constellation Change Screen Dance Festival London 2006
Release
Mill Valley Film Festival 2001
LoqueeshaAshleyFranklinJoséBrown
High Falls Film Festival 2001
LoqueeshaAshleyFranklinJoséBrown
Biennial African American Museum of Philadelphia 2000
Moving with the Dreaming, the only video
selected for inclusion
Women in the Director's Chair Chicago 1997
Moving with the Dreaming
African American Women in the Arts Film Video Festival Chicago
1993
Anna Russell Jones: Praisesong for a Pioneering Spirit
Museum of Modern Art New York 1991
Shizue, screened as part of
"Consumer Tools, Personal Visions" program
ORGANIZATIONAL AND COMMUNITY WORK
(PARTIAL)
HipCinema & Haitian Professionals of
Philadelphia
Co-produced fund-raiser screening of the film Toussaint Louverture at the Independence Seaport Museum of
Philadelphia for 270 people, June 2013
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation (PhillyCAM)
Board of Directors,
2008 - 2009
Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra
Advisory Board 2005
to 2010
Delta Film Fest
Advisor/Programmer 1992- 2002
Aided in selection
of films and speakers for this African diasporic film festival. Speakers
included:
Sonia Sanchez, Toni
Cade Bambara, Haile Gerima, and Louis Massiah.
Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association
Board Member 2000 to 2003
Philadelphia Community Access Coalition
Committee Member
1999 to 2002
Asian Arts Initiative
Program Committee
1999 to 2000
Painted Bride Art Center
Advisory Board 1994
to 1996
RECENT PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS (PARTIAL)
Black Film Advisory Committee
Documentary Film Panel, September 2014
Philadelphia Councilman David Oh’s
sponsored panel at Drexel University to encourage production of diverse content
in the region.
PIFA (Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts) ”If She Stood”
Panels on the following: Expanding
Student Horizons: Interpreting History; The Omission of Women: Archiving
Women’s History; Quakers, Abolition and Philadelphia, April - May 2013
Black Star Film Festival
Panel on Black Independent Media,
August 2012
Americans for the Arts Annual Conference
“Preserving Diverse Cultures” Panel,
June 2008
From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout/ Crane Arts Building
Icebox Gallery
Panel discussion about art and racial
politics, January 2008
with Deborah Willis, Maya
Freelon-Asante and Theadore A. Harris
Delta Sigma Theta Convention
"Filming Real to Reel 101",
African American Cinema Panel, August 2006
With Actress/Producers Sheryl Lee Ralph
and Ruby Dee
SAMPLE
OF WORK ONLINE
Company Website Hipcinema.net
http://hipcinema.net/about/
Online interviews with Nadine Patterson
Sample One Day Workshop Outline: Black Film Revolution: Then and
Now
HipCinema Channel on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/channels/hipcinema Works include Moving with the Dreaming, Release,
Philadelphia Child and LickFilm.
Trenton International Film Festival Line-up 2011 http://www.tiff2011.blogspot.com/
PUBLICATIONS
HipCinema Case
Study https://hipcinema.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/tmac-tugg-case-study121.pdf
Always
Emerging: Observations on Cinema Culture & Practice,
Published by Lulu Press, 2012 http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/nadine-patterson/always-emerging-observations-on-cinema-culture-practice/paperback/product-20134404.html
REFERENCES
Martha Conley, Esq., Former Student
marcon71@msn.com
Fran McElroy, Producer/Director
Shirley Road Productions
info@shirleyroadproductions.org
Sharon Mullay, Editor/Producer
Extended Play Inc.
sharone.mullally@gmail.com
sharone.mullally@gmail.com
Caroline Savage, Program Director
Art Museums, Crafts, Film
& Electronic Media, Folk & Traditional Arts, Visual Arts
Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts
savage.caroline@gmail.com
Eric Siler, Instructor
Cleveland State University
