Marilyn Freeman

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Marilyn Freeman is an interdisciplinary, experimental, process- and time-based artist whose work is characterized by themes of identity, faith, family, and tolerance. She fuses writing, filmmaking, and new technologies in the digital media arts studio, Wovie, which she co-founded in 2000 with partner and creative collaborator, Anne de Marcken. Freeman is in post production on FAIR, a feature-length documentary about the self-advocacy movement of people with developmental disabilities. Presently, her CinemaDivina contemplative short film Reverence is featured on ninthletter.com. In 2010 her autobiographical video essay, Baptism, the first in a series about growing up under the influence of the Catholic Church’s Seven Holy Sacraments, will inaugurate the video essay for Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts.  Her first feature film, Group, is distributed by Frameline and was released to the home market on DVD in 2009 following its theatrical 35mm film release in 2002. Her many accolades include multiple Washington State Artist Trust awards for her screenplay, Sophisticated: The Hollywood Story of Miss Dorothy Arzner. Freeman’s short film, Meeting Magdalene, played festivals worldwide and garnered a Naiad Press book deal for the short story collection, Meeting Magdalene. She directed In My Father’s Bed and helmed American Values, a talk show supporting equal civil rights in the face of anti-gay legislation.  Recent credits include Planet Out Short Film Finalist, Civil Enough and an MTV LOGO commission entitled, The Birders.  Freeman is in development with In The Way of Intimacy, a feature about a self-obsessed hipster who turns unlikely heroine. She is at work on the Sacraments Series and CinemaDivina while teaching at The Evergreen State College.