Anne Chamberlain

A filmmaker, scholar and activist, Anne Chamberlain's widely screened 16mm films of the New Queer Cinema Movement are held in the University of California at Los Angeles Film Archives' "Legacy Project," and with Cinenova Distribution, London, UK. In the 1990s, Her 1992 student produced films "Condomnation" (the first theatrical film about lesbians in the AIDS crisis), and "Premenstrual" (utilizing human DNA as celluloid image emulsion), are landmarks of queer feminist film history. While working as a freelance camera operator and SAG/AFTRA actor in San Francisco and Los Angeles since the the 1990s, Anne also pioneered the fields of Queer/Gender Media Theory, creating and teaching film courses for the Harvey Milk Institute, and also for the LGBTQ and Women's Studies Departments at City College of San Francisco. In the 2000s, she was at the cutting edge of global online education, authoring classes and teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Academy of Art University. Over decades in higher education, Anne's lessons covered subjects that include the production, theory, and history of motion pictures, and also an elective titled "The Beatles in the Visual Arts." She was born in Louisville, Kentucky and received a B.A. in History with a Certificate in Film Studies from Indiana University. She went on to complete an M.F.A. in Cinema & Photography at Southern Illinois University, where she received a Graduate Dean's Fellowship and the Elizabeth Eames Scholarship.