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Sasha Waters Freyer
San Francisco, CA 2008



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Georgia Caroline Freyer
Iowa City, IA, July 2008

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Ruby Grace Freyer
Iowa City, IA, July 2008




Georgia's 4th birthday party
Iowa City, IA, July 2008


About the Maker

Sasha Waters Freyer's films & videos have broadcast and screened widely in the U.S. and abroad, including on the PBS series Independent Lens, the Sundance Channel, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour, the Woodstock Film Festival, the Videoex International Festival of Experimental Film in Zurich, Kasseler Dokumentarfilm Festival and Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Humanities Iowa, the Graham Foundation, the Jacqueline Donnet Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Iowa Arts Council, the MacDowell Colony and the Corporation of Yaddo.
In 2005, she was a finalist for a grant from the Creative Capital foundation.

Waters
Freyer's recent short nonfiction experimental 16mm films have won awards at the Onion City Film Festival in Chicago, the New Jersey International Film Festival, the Humboldt International Short Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the San Diego Women's Film Festival, among other venues.

Since 2000, Waters
Freyer has taught film & video in the Department of Cinema & Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where she is an Associate Professor. She lives in a house with a big front porch in Iowa City with her husband, media artist extraordinaire John D. Freyer and their daughters Georgia and Ruby.

Recent Awards & Honors

• Artistic Vistion Award for This American Gothic
 
Landlocked Film Festival, Iowa City, IA, 2008
• Best of the Fest Award for Her Heart is Washed...
 
SIREN: An Int'l Film Odyssey, Ithaca, NY, 2007
• Best Experimental Award for Her Heart is Washed...
 
Magnolia Film Festival, 2007
• Honorable Mention in Experimental Film for The
sWaiting Time
, Humboldt Int'l Short Film Festival, 2006

Iowa Arts Council Project Grant, 2005
• Your Mama Audience Choice Award for The Waiting Time
  San Diego Girl Film Festival, 2005

• Summer Research Fellowship, International Programs
  University of Iowa, 2005

Yaddo Colony Residency, 2004


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