Films by Filmmaker

Beverly Seckinger

Beverly Seckinger is an independent producer based in Tucson, Arizona. She is also a Professor in the School of Theatre, Film & Television at the University of Arizona, where she teaches courses in media production, documentary studies, and LGBT Studies. She is  a founding member of the university's Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, and since 1993 has served as director of the Lesbian Looks Film & Video Series. Before joining the Media Arts faculty in 1991, she worked as a freelance producer in Philadelphia, and spent four years in Morocco, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later as a literacy researcher. Seckinger's diary/documentary Laramie Inside Out, an exploration of the ongoing reverberations in her hometown community of Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder, is licensed to American Public Television for broadcast on PBS affiliates. Her previous films include Mommie Queerest, a comic short about mother/daughter conflicts over gender socialization; Bottoms Up and Alice Unplugged, experimental satires on lesbian life in the 90's, both co-directed with Joyan Saunders; Planet in My Pocket, a critique of consumer multiculturalism; and Letter From Morocco, a personal documentary about neo-colonial relations. Her work has been screened at international festivals in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. Seckinger was the recipient of a Media Arts Fellowship for 2002 from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 2011, she directed a music video with an all-student crew for the song "Shine from the Valley," written by Tucson musician Mitzi Cowell in response to the mass shooting incident of January 8th. She is currently in production on Hippie Family Values, a feature-length documentary that explores the historical and contemporary hippie counterculture of the southwest. The project is supported by an Artist Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and a Research Fellowship from the Hanson Film Institute.