Yvonne Welbon
Yvonne Welbon is a Chicago based award-winning independent filmmaker and freelance
producer. Over the last decade she has made eight films and produced twelve others. Her
independent films have screened on PBS, Starz! Encore, TV-ONE, IFC, Bravo, the Sundance Channel and in over one hundred film festivals around the world. LIVING WITH PRIDE: RUTH ELLIS@ 100 has won ten best documentary awards—including the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her ongoing Sundance Documentary Fellow project is SISTERS IN CINEMA, a documentary, website and forth-coming book based on her doctoral dissertation about the history of African American women feature film directors (www.sistersincinema.com).
Yvonne Welbon's freelance producing projects include: John Pierson's SPLIT SCREEN, Zeinabu irene Davis' Sundance dramatic competition feature COMPENSATION, Cheryl Dunye's HBO film STRANGER INSIDE, Thomas Allen Harris' Berlin Int'l Film Festival award-winning documentary É MINHA CARA/That's My Face, and Catherine Crouch's directorial debut STRAY DOGS, starring Guinevere Turner. The St. Louis International Film Festival recently honored Yvonne Welbon with their inaugural Women in Film Award.
Welbon received an undergraduate degree in History from Vassar College. Thereafter, she spent six years in Taipei, Taiwan, where she taught English, learned Mandarin Chinese, and founded and published a premiere arts magazine for five years. Welbon returned to the United States and enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and obtained a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in film and video and a Ph.D. in Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is also a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women.