Jennifer Abod

Producer | Long Beach , USA

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Jennifer Abod is an educator and award winning video and audio producer. She holds a degree in Intercultural Media Education and Women's Studies and is a UCLA Research Scholar. Abod is working on her fourth video documentary. Abod's most recent video Look Us in the Eye: The Old Women's Project, is the first video about the relationship between ageism, sexism, and activism. Look Us in the Eye is being seen worldwide at festivals, in classrooms, at conferences and in progressive organizations. It has been translated into Spanish and French and is also closed-captioned. Awards include: San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, Best Role Model for Women at Festival •Milan Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Italy, Special Merit Jury Selection •San Diego Women's Festival, Best Doc Audience Award, Homegrown Heroines (2008, Distributors: Aquarius Health Care Media and Terra Nova Films, Inc). The Edge of Each Other's Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde is about black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Lorde is one of the most celebrated icons of feminism's second wave, serving as a catalyst for change and uniting the communities of which she was a part: black arts and black liberation, women's liberation and lesbian and gay liberation. The video is based on the groundbreaking I AM YOUR SISTER CONFERENCE, which brought together 1200 activists from 23 countries, and includes footage of Lorde and candid interviews with conference organizers. Edge has been seen worldwide and has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian and German. Among the awards is Best Video Production, International Black Berlin Festival (2002 Women Make Movies). Abod was an Assistant Professor of Communication at Hofstra University and has taught at UMASS Boston and Cal State Long Beach. She worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts as media producer (video and audio). Abod was a broadcaster on community, public and commercial radio. She was the first woman in the state of Connecticut to have her own daily talk show, The Jennifer Abod Show, which she hosted six nights a week, four hours a night for four years. In the early years of the Women's Liberation Movement, Abod was the singer and co-founder of the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band, (CD Papa Don't Lay that Shit on Me, Rounder Records 2005) and co-creator of the first feminist radio soap opera, The Liberation of Lydia. Abod's contributions to feminism is documented in the recently released book: Feminists Who Changed America; 1963-1975, University of Illinois Press (2006).