MARY JANE DOHERTY Boston University, College of Communication, Department of Film and Video Associate Professor of Film Production 617-353-7739 <maryjane@bu.edu> FILM PRODUCTION PROGRAM COURSE DEVELOPMENT! CM 201 Screen Language One of four designers of a novel approach to a 200-level course on Visual Language.! FT 552 Production Design This course complements cinematography by demonstrating how production designers produce the visual material upon which cinematographers depend for their compositions. 2009! FT 555 The Narrative Documentary Practicum Teaches advanced film and television production students highly specialized filmmaking techniques used for the narrative documentary: character-driven films about real people. The course, developed in 2000, has produced award-winning films since 2004.! FT 851 Thesis Prep Explores the aesthetic and technical parameters of the short film format with the goal of celebrating the short form as a genre unto itself. Graduate students then develop and write their thesis scripts in preparation for thesis production the following year. 2000! FT 502 Sound Design and Post Production Provides students with a thorough understanding of the theory and technique of sound design as the emotional driver underscoring all genres of filmmaking. 1992 FILM PRODUCTION PROGRAM ACTIVITIES (2003-2010)! MFA Film Production Graduate Program Coordinator! Semester Course/Professor/Room Scheduling! Semester Film Screenings! Internal Point Person: Adjuncts, TAs, Other College Programs and Departments! External Point person: Including, for example, Berklee School of Music, WGBH, Mass Production Coalition ACADEMIC NOTABLES! Featured in Boston University Annual Review Video and Advice to Seniors Video. 2013! Featured in Boston University Research Arts Beat. Cuban Ballet Films. 2008! Final Round, twice: Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. Boston University 2003, 2004! Sabbatical: 1997/98, 2006/07 and 2013/14! Narrative Documentary Students received 1st or 2nd place in 2004, 2005, 2006 Redstone Film Festival
EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES (Selected)! Keynote Presenter: Jose Mateo Talk About Dance Seminar. 2013! Art Institute of Boston MFA Mentorship Program, 2009-2010! LEF Foundation: Consultant and co-curator: Facing Realities 2008! IWA. Independent Women of America. PAC co-founder. 2008! Visiting Associate Professor, Sight and Sound I, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont. 2007! Griffin Museum. Photography Portfolio Review. 2007! WIFNE Latin Film Festival. Panel Moderator. 2007! LEF Foundation. Moving Image Award. Juror and Panelist. 2005! New England Film and Video Festival. Judge. 2000.! Boston Film Video Association. Board member 1996-66. Fiscal Agency Committee. 1996-00! Colby Sawyer College, Guest Seminarist. 2000! Rockport International Film School, Mentor 2000.! Vision Chair Award. Committee Chair. Boston Film Video Association. 1995/96 UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Selected)! COM Arts Initiative 2012/13Committee! COM 01 Revision Committee Designer 2012/13! Film Production Program Director: 2002 to the present! Guest Lecturer: Autism in Film. Boston University-wide seminar on Autism. CAS-PS 200A1 2009/2010! Search Committee: Dean of the College of Fine Arts 2009/10! Search Committee: Film and Television Department 2009/10! COM 101 Guest Lecturer. 2005 to the present! COM 101 Guest Panelist. The Narrative in Documentary. 2009! APT Committee: 2006/2009! Search Committee. Film and Television Department. Chair 1993, 1995, Chair 2001, 2005! Redstone Film Festival Director, 1998/99, 2001/02, 2003/04! Sound Task Force: 2003/04! Dean s Task Force on Disability. Lead writer. 2001! Curriculum Committee: Chair 1991/92 1999/00 and 2012/13 FILM PRODUCTIONS (SELECTED) SECUNDARIA Feature documentary following teenage Cuban ballerinas, through the world famous Cuban National Ballet High School. Director, Cinematographer, Editor and Co-Producer. Nadita Productions. April, 2013 PRIMARIA In Post Production: Feature documentary following 3 young children through 4 years of ballet training in Havana, Cuba. Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Co-Producer. Release date: December 2013.
LOVE AND OTHER ANXIETIES Feature documentary film on contemporary marriage scenarios. Cinematographer. Nadita Productions. 2011. TRANSFORMING THE EARTH; PART ONE. TEN THOUSAND SHOVELS Geographical transformation of the Pearl River Delta in Southeastern China. Co-produced by NASA, Stanford University and Boston University Departments of Geography. Also: camera, editor. 11' 2004 OH MY GOD 6 people of varying faiths cook, clean, drive their cars while they discuss their relationship to their faith. (There's a "good" way to belong to an organized faith after all...) Also, cinematographer, editor. 47. 2001 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TEN POINT COALITION Portraits of preachers in Boston s Ten Point Coalition. Also, cinematographer, editor. 12. 1997-98. MAKE IT JUST RIGHT Vice President Gore talks to children about growing up with two working parents. Coproduction, VIDA Health Inc. Also, editor. 20. 1996 WORTH THE TRIP Teaching and raising children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Co-production with VIDA Health Communications. Also, editor. 60. 1996 VROOM A Buddhist commuter drives to work one day. Experimental. Director, Cinematographer, Writer 7 1995 GRAVITY Alternative science documentary on experimental astrophysics. Includes MIT Laboratory Director, Dr. Ray Weiss and Nobel Prize Winner, Dr. Victor Weisskopf. Director, Cinematographer, Editor. 40. 1986. 3 FISH STORIES A physicist, a fashion model and a Swedish undergrad all cook a fish. Director, Cinematographer, Editor. 15. 1984. DUMBARTON HOUSE National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Original music by Boston Symphony members. Also, co-cinematographer, co-writer, co-editor. 30 minutes. 1984. SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, SCREENINGS! Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, Best New England Film. SECUNDARIA. 2013! International Film Festival of New Latin Cinema. SECUNDARIA. Havana, Cuba. 2013! Dance On Camera. SECUNDARIA Film Forum at Lincoln Cente,r New York City. 2014! Boston Foundation, Brother Thomas Fellowship Nominee 2013! Independent Film Festival Boston, SECUNDARIA, 2013. Included in Best of Fest, Ty Burr, Globe Critic.! Independent Film Festival Boston, LOVE AND OTHER ANXIETIES 2012! Camden International Film Festival, LOVE AND OTHER ANXIETIES 2011! IFP Spotlight on Documentaries, SECUNDARIA EXCERPTS 2011! Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist, SECUNDARIA EXCERPTS 2011! Hemphill Foundation Award: Newburyport, MA. LOS NIÑOS DE LA DANZA CUBANA, 2008
! Plymouth International Film Festival: VROOM, Plymouth, MA 2006! Soho National Juried Photography Competition Photograph: TRENCH. New York City. 2005! Richard E. Levine Foundation, OH MY GOD, 1998! Hershey Foundation, OH MY GOD, 1998,! LEF Foundation: OH MY GOD. 1998-2001! Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts OH MY GOD. 2001! Coolidge Corner Cinema, Boston Massachusetts OH MY GOD. 2001! Family Re-Union V Conference, Presentation to President Clinton and Vice President Gore. Nashville Tennessee: MAKE IT JUST RIGHT. 1996! National Poetry Workshop Festival, San Francisco, California. VROOM. 1996! Women In The Director's Chair, Chicago, IL. VROOM 1996! Chicago Public Television, WTTU: VROOM. 1996.! Venice, Sundance, and Toronto Film Festivals. THE CLEAN UP. 1992.! CINE Golden Eagle and ACCH (Association for the Care of Children's Health) Special Anniversary Award: CHALLENGE TO CARE. 1990.! Athens Film Festival and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Finalist: AIRBORN. 1987.! Chicago Film Festival. Honorable Mention: STRANGLEHOLD. 1985.! New England Film/Video Fellowship: GRAVITY 1985! French International Festival of Physics Films: GRAVITY. 1985.! MIT: MIT Council for the Arts. Best of Show: 3 FISH STORIES. 1984 SCREENWRITER! GENIUS IN THE FAST LANE. Feature fiction screenplay. 2004.! POLAR JUSTICE. Optioned by Red Bird Productions (Debbie Allen.) Feature screenplay on Matthew Henson, North Pole navigator. 120 minutes. 1995. FILM EDITOR/WRITER! LESSONS FROM THE ONES WE LOVE. VP Gore/Sam Kauffmann. 20 1997! THE CLEAN UP. Jane Weinstock Productions. Also, sound editor. 8' 1992! SO YOU WANT TO GO TO AFRICA. Northern Light Productions. Michael and Ethel Kennedy in Angola. 30' 1991! STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART. (Co-Producer.) VIDA. 30' 1991! CHALLENGE TO CARE. VIDA. 30' 1990! INNOVATING AMERICA. Shows 1 and 2. Ford Foundation.Also writer. 60' 1990! WELCOME HOME MATTHEW HENSON. Harvard Foundation. Narrated by James Earl Jones. Also writer. PBS, Monitor Channel, and Swedish TV. 30' 1989! EXCELLENCE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR WITH TOM PETERS. (Contributing Editor.) PBS. 60 minutes. 1989.! SWORDPLAY AND HORSEPLAY. Prime Computer Company. Two shorts. 1989.! THE NORTH POLE LEGACY. Harvard Foundation. Also writer. PBS, Swedish TV. 60 minutes. 1988.! STRANGLEHOLD. Big Nose Productions. MTV. 1985.
OTHER! AIRBORN. Sound. Big Nose Productions, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. 120'. 1987.! EYES ON THE PRIZE; AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS YEARS. Assistant Editor and sound designer. (Shows 3/5. S Assistant Editor. Blackside Inc. National PBS. 1986. EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (Selected) Boston University Film Unit! LOST AFRICANS OF THE ANDES. Narrated by James Earl Jones. Harvard Foundation. PBS. 30' 1996! SAFETY. US Coast Guard. Three spots. 1995-97! LEARNING FOR LIFE. The Scottish Rite. Educational. 1995! SURVIVING THE FAMILY. Sam Kauffmann and Kim Caviness. Short. 1993.! BOSTON UNIVERSITY: COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING. Orientation Film. 1991&96 EDUCATION! Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Film/Video. MSVisS. 1985! Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine. Biology and Studio Art. BA. 1979