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Elizabeth Barret is a community-based media maker whose films and videos focus on the history, culture and social issues of the Appalachian region. Barret's work has screened at various venues including the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and have been broadcast nationally and regionally on PBS. She was awarded the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival (2000), the Award of Excellence from the Society of Visual Anthropology (2000) and the John O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association (2002). Barret has received project support from the Ford Foundation, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Soros Documentary Fund and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was awarded a Media Arts Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and a Southeast Media Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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