Sasha
Waters Freyer
San Francisco, CA 2008

Georgia
Caroline Freyer
Iowa City, IA, July 2008

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