Deb Wallwork
From Fargo Filmmaking
Deb Wallwork (b. ?) is an independent filmmaker and artist in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the producer of, most recently, Cold Mountain, C. Beck, Mino-bimadiziwin: The Good Life and Building a Dream: The Moorhead Stave Church.
A studio camera operator and photographer at Prairie Public Television in the mid-1980s, she worked on such television shows as North Dakota This Week and Interviews, with host Boyd Christensen. In 1982, she partnered with the station, the ND Humanities Council, and the Red River Indian Association to produce "Keep Your Heart Strong" a documentary about pow-wows, and went on to make four more award winning documentaries about Native American culture. As station photographer, she shot the ID slides for the national PBS broadcast of "Movie at the End of the World" a portrait of North Dakota poet Tom McGrath. In 1983, she received the first fellowship from the North Dakota Arts Council in Film and Photography, and since then her films have been shown in festivals across the country, winning numerous awards including runner-up for the American Film Award, an Independent Lens Grand Prize for Short Film and a Cine Gold Eagle.
Her documentaries have been screened at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian. Her documentary about Guy Paulson's Stave Church, "Building A Dream" can be seen at the Hjemkomst Heritage Center. Other commissions and credits include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, and the National Park Service.
Deb has an MFA in Film from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She has taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead, and at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
She currently works as editor and co-director with Mike Hazard, at the Center for International Education. Her films can be purchased at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul or online at the MNHS store (see links below).
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[edit] Filmography
[edit] As Director
- Cold Mountain (2009)
- C. Beck (2006)
- Building a Dream: The Moorhead Stave Church (2001)
- Mino-bimadiziwin: The Good Life
- Sacred Buffalo People
- Warriors
- Keep Your Heart Strong
[edit] Affiliations
- Red Eye Video... Executive Producer
- Center for International Education.... Co-Director, Editor
[edit] External Links
- Red Eye Video website
- MNHS Online Store
- Center for International Education website
