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DENISE R. GABERMAN
director. producer. videographer. media technology consultant
Tel. 718.541.8271 Email: drg@riseup.net

EXPERIENCE
Program Producer and New Media Instructional Trainer, NYIT/TBLS (April 2006-Present)
Develop and facilitate interdisciplinary curriculum workshops using the latest technologies for teachers, administrators, and students in the NYCBOE Region One Bronx public school system.  Technologies include the creation of digital stories, video/audio podcasting, and blogging.

Consultant and Trainer for Brooklyn College’s Community Partnership (April 2005 to Present)
Train media educators to work in after school and in-school environments.

Video-Link Coordinator, NYC Board of Education (January 2005-April 2006)
Created and facilitated media literacy and media technology workshops for students, teachers and administrators. Taught youth media skills for interdisciplinary classroom based media projects.  Created professional development resources and provided video documentation of Region One activities.

The Post Punk Kitchen (June 2003-January 2005)
Producer/ Director/ Videographer for the “Post Punk Kitchen” a Brooklyn based vegan/rock n’ roll cooking show: www.theppk.com

Firelight Media, Stanley Nelson (February 2004-July 2004)
Associate Producer/ Camera for a documentary about High School Reform across the country.

Video-Link, NYC Board of Education (October 2002-June 2003)
Oral Historian/ Media Educator/ Curriculum Developer. Facilitated oral history and media training workshops for teachers and students, grades second-eighth. Developed social documentary projects on community issues facing youth in the Bronx:  The History of the Pollution of the Bronx River and a number of projects exploring history and cultural diversity in the Bronx.

Firelight Media, Stanley Nelson (August 2001 –January 2002)
Associate Producer/ Videographer for "Running," an award winning PBS documentary about New York City’s historic 2001 City Council race. Produced segment on Dominican candidates and campaign finance reform in the Washington Heights District.

Elder Share the Arts (February 2001-April 2002)
Media Educator.  Taught intergenerational video production, editing, media literacy, and photo workshops for in-school and after-school programs with sixth and ninth graders.

Paper Tiger Television Collective (November 1997-2002)
Video Producer/ Distribution Coordinator/ Media Educator.  Participated in producing, shooting, and editing video documentaries that address issues of democratic communications, media representation and economics of the information industry.   Collaborated with different youth media organizations to bring several youth media producers to the WTO protests in DC.  Worked with Queer youth to produce two documentaries: “Fenced Out” and “Homecoming Queens.”  Projects focused on the history of LGBTQ life in NYC from the 1960s-present.

EDUCATION
“Instructional Applications of the Internet” Graduate Course in Educational Technology at NYIT
MA    New York University/ Gallatin School/Oral History and Intergenerational Studies
BA    American University/Anthropology and Human Rights

MEDIA PROJECTS
Region One Title IIB Video (16 min, NYIT/NYCBOE Region One, 2007)
Math Rocks! (10 one-minute shorts, Video-Link, 2005)
Poetry Express (10 min, Video-Link, 2005)
Mouse Squad (15 min, Video-Link, 2005)
The Post Punk Kitchen (28 min, Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 The Post Punk Kitchen Productions 2003-2005)
High School Reform (28min, Firelight Media/Carnegie Corporation 2004)
Rebirth of the River (15 min, Video-Link, 2003)
Tribute to Sylvia Rivera (15 min, 2002)
Keep On Living (5min, PTTV, Safe Space, Le Tigre, Fall 2002)
Running: The Campaign for City Council (60 min, Firelight Media, January 2002)
Fenced Out (20 min, PTTV, New Neutral Zone, FIERCE, Fall 2001)
Breaking the Bank (5 min youth segment for PTTV/IMC, April 2000)
Youth Views on Death and Dying (20 min. EVC, January 2000)
Milleniumphobia (20 min. EVC, January 2000)
Homecoming Queens (25 min. PTTV, September 2000)
Crash the G8! (26 min. PTTV, May 1999)
Bombs Away! Amy Goodman Looks at NATOs Bombing of the Balkans (26 min. PTTV, 1999)
Subverting Media: A Guide to Low Tech Information Activism (26 min. PTTV, Nov.1998)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, ARTCLES AND FILM FESTIVALS
2006 “Youth Media Non-Profit as Classroom”, Youth Media Reporter (May 31 2006)
2005 Grassroots Media Conference
2004 Ladyfest, NYC
2004 Lost Film Festival
2003 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
2002 National Oral History Association meetings, San Diego, CA
2002 New Festival in NYC
2002 International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, SF
2001 Critical Resistance Conference, NYC
2001 Mix Festival, World Premiere of Fenced Out, NYC
2000-02 Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival, NYC
2000 Margaret Mead Film Festival, NYC
2000 Exhibit on Independent and Youth Media, Berkley University, CA
2000 Robert Flaherty Film Seminar on youth and media activism, Ithaca, NY
2000 "The Happening" at Duke University’s Documentary Center, NC
1999 Next Five Minutes, media activists’ conference, Amsterdam
1998 Video History Conference, New York

AWARDS
2003 CINE Golden Eagle Award, “Running”
2002 Henry Hampton Documentary Film Award, “Running”
2000 MacArthur Foundation Grant, awarded to Paper Tiger Television
2000 Soros Foundation Grant, awarded to Paper Tiger Television
1998 Dodge Grant recipient for The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar