Films by Filmmaker

Ellen Frankenstein

Ellen Frankenstein's latest addition to the New Day collection is the 57-minute film, Eating Alaska, a wry search for the “right thing” to eat. She’s currently working on a engagement project around the film involving Slow Food chapters, environmental groups, public libraries, universities, work places and community organizations from Nome to Boston in setting up screenings along with sustainability fairs, local food potlucks and panels with beekeepers, ranchers, fishers, farmers, vegans and seaweed gathers. It is about not only generating a conversation about what is wrong with our current food system but how at a local level we can rediscover, share and explore how to live and eat sustainably.

Frankenstein has four other documentaries in the New Day collection, No Loitering, A Matter of Respect, Miles from the Border, Carved from the Heart with a follow-up to Carved, called Words from the Heart. She is has coordinated and participated in community arts and school-based media projects from South Central Los Angeles and Lexington Kentucky to Kake and White Mountain Alaska. Frankenstein has exhibited her still photography nationally and internationally and has helped her spouse sail a 30-foot wooden gaff-rigged ketch sail boat from Mexico to New Zealand. She has a Masters in Visual Anthropology from the University of Southern California. Grants and awards include a Fulbright - Hays Fellowship and grants from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities. To see a portfolio of photography and video and learn about Ellen's current projects, visit the Frankenstein Productions website at www.efclicks.net.