Marilyn Birchfield

MARILYN BIRCHFIELD

Biography

Marilyn Birchfield, film and video Director and Producer from Venezuela was born on the island of Trinidad and Tobago to Venezuelan and North American parents. At an early age the family moved to the United States where she finished her formal education, receiving a Masters Degree (cum laude) in Mass Communication from Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts.

Marilyn’s experience at Emerson brought her to an award-winning career as an independent director and producer in film and video in Venezuela, South America, and the Caribbean, where she has resided and worked ever since.

Her first job after graduation was for CBS Sports during the Pan-American games in Caracas, Venezuela. After that she worked as Head of the video Department of one of Venezuela’s top oil companies: Corpoven. After a few years she decided to go independent and established her own production company Interamericana de Cine through which she has directed and produced numerous documentaries, films, shorts and video clips.

Some of her works include: Director and Producer for the television program:

Los Románticos – La Última Cita for HBO OLE in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Executive Producer for the feature film: Mecanicas Celestes. A Venezuelan and French co-production directed by famous Venezuelan filmmaker Fina Torres.

Scriptwriter for the feature film projects: Ana Teresa/ Cazabon. Venezuela and Trinidad.

Production Coordinator for the video-clip: Imaginame Sin Ti by the Puerto Rican artist Luis Fonsi at Canaima, Venezuela. Among many others.

In July 2008, she won first prize in an international video art competition sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Spain with a piece called CARACAS MORFOSIS.

Among her other recognitions have been the following awards:

Best Institutional Publicity Campaign (TV) for the National

Archives, Awarded by the Municipal Government, Caracas, Venezuela.

Best Political Talk Show for Jose Vicente Hoy Awarded by “Meridiano de Oro”.

Caracas, Venezuela. Director.

Best Documentary. Awarded by the Alpha-Epsilon RHO National Student

Competition, For the Documentary: Inside Blue. Boston, Ma.USA.

Best Documentary Production. Awarded by the National Association of

Television Arts and Sciences and Emerson College Evey Awards

For: SiddhaYoga Ashram: A Boston Profile. Boston, Massachusetts.

She recently finished directing and producing a series of shorts for TV on twelve Venezuelan poets called: The Image and the Word: 12 Venezuelan Poets.

Her next project: a feature film about a famous Venezuela writer, Teresa de la Parra.

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Artist Statement

In my work I like to capture the emotion of the moment – be it serene, exciting, sensual, quiet or joyous- my photographic , installations, video/film work are meant to reach out and touch the Heart Strings that connect us all through the work of art to the same core emotions.

I like to work with what I call Textures – be it in people’s faces, in objects or landscapes – that evoke emotional memories, aromas, sensations, experiences that allow us to submerge ourselves in an intimate “Stendhal syndrome” state through visual and physical contact with the work.

Allowing my unconscious to manifest through my work, I hope to touch the unconscious of those who view it and establish a common bond.