DEBORAH FRYER C.V.

Awards listed in red.

FILM/VIDEO CREDITS
RADAR COMMUNICATIONS, Filmmaker
LILA FILMS, Documentary short about Centura Health’s Medical Missions to Peru, Rwanda and Nepal (currently in production)
LILA FILMS, Shaken ( Producer/Director/Cinematographer)
*Winner, 2007 Accolade Award
*Official Selection, 2007 Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder, CO)
*Winner BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2006 SCINEMA Festival of Science Film (Sydney, Australia)
*Winner BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, 2006 VisionFest Film Festival (New York, NY)
*Winner BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT, 2006 Annapolis Film Festival (Annapolis, MD)
*Winner BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2006 36th Roshd International Film Festival (Tehran, Iran)
*Official Selection, 2006 Denver Film Festival (Denver, CO)
*Official Selection, 2006 Travelling Film Festival (screened in 90 venues across Australia and New Zealand)
*Official Selection, 2006 International Beverly Hills Film Festival (Beverly Hills, CA)
*Official Selection, 2006 Newport Beach Film Festival (Newport Beach, CA)
FREE SPEECH TV, Sourcecode (2005, Writer, 9 episodes)
INJOY VIDEO PRODUCTIONS, You Can Quit (2005, Producer/Director)
INJOY VIDEO PRODUCTIONS, 5 A’s Counseling Method (2005, Producer/Director)
LILA FILMS, Shaken, Not Stirred (2004, Producer/Director of documentary short, TRT 5:00)
*Winner, Moondance International Film Festival Documentary Short Award, 2005
HISTORY CHANNEL, Last Days of World War II (2005, fact-checked/researched 12 episodes)
ENERGY AWARENESS PRODUCTIONS, Extravagant Energy (2004, Producer/Videographer for trailer)
NOVA /WGBH, World in the Balance (2004, fact-checked script only)
WARREN MILLER FILMS, Popular Science Adventures (2003, Co-Producer/Writer/Director)
HGTV, If Walls Could Talk (29 segments, 2002-2003, Producer/Writer/Director)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, Fuel Cells: The Energy Revolution (2001, Writing Consultant)
HISTORY CHANNEL, This Week in History (3 segments, 2001, Producer/Writer/Director)
MSNBC REPORTS, Fear and Dying in America (2000, Producer/Writer/Director)
MSNBC REPORTS, The Price of Death (2000, Producer/Writer/Director)
FRONTLINE/WGBH, Assault on Gay America (2000, Field Producer, Production Manager)
NOVA / WGBH, Six Billion and Beyond (2000, Associate Producer)
NOVA / WGBH, Secrets of Lost Empires II:  Roman Bath  (2000, Associate Producer)
FRONTLINE / WGBH, Russian Roulette (1999, Associate Producer)
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY/TURNER ORIGINAL PRODS, Panama: Paradise Found? (1998, AP/Asst. Editor)
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, Who's Counting? Population & Habitat in the New Millennium (1997, AP/Asst. Editor)
PBS / KTEH, Cadillac Desert: Last Oasis (1997, AP/Production Manager/Asst. Editor)
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE / PBS, A Midwife’s Tale (1997, Fundraising Assistant)
U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE, Biodiversity: Wild about Life! (1997, AP/Production Manager/Asst. Editor)
DISCOVERY CHANNEL, Discover Science: The Dark Side of Venus (1996, AP/Production Manager)
WBZ-TV / Tarragon Interactive, 100th Boston Marathon web site (1996, Writer/Researcher)
PBS, Taking on the Kennedys (1996, Transcriber)
PBS, Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt (1996, Transcriber)
NOVA / WGBH, Lightning! (1995, Production Assistant)
NOVA / WGBH, Can Buildings Make You Sick? (1995, Production Assistant)
PBS, Arguing the World (1995, Production Assistant)
TRAVEL CHANNEL, Mysterious Places series (1993, Writer/Researcher/Production Coordinator)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Princeton, NJ, 1993-94, Senior Editor)  Researched, wrote, and translated 120 documentary scripts from French, German, Italian, Spanish and Modern Greek into English.  Topics included literature, history, music, art, engineering, physics, medicine, religion, psychology, and anthropology.

WRITING CREDITS
“Icebergs,” © Thunder Rain Press, 2006
Excerpt from "Food of the Gods" in The World Is a Kitchen © Travelers’ Tales, 2006
“Every Body Needs Milk” in The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2006 © Travelers’ Tales, 2006
“Every Body Needs Milk”  *Winner, Moondance International Film Festival Short Story Award, 2005
“It’s About Time” *Semi-Finalist, Moondance Film Festival Short Story Award, 2005
New Millennium Writings Award, Honorable Mention, 2005 and 2004
“Icebergs” ©The King’s English, www.thekingsenglish.org, April 2005
“Cause for Alarm” ©The King’s English, www.thekingsenglish.org, Jan 2005
“Cause for Alarm” in The Best Travel Writing 2005 © Travelers’ Tales, 2005
“Cause for Alarm”  *Winner, Moondance International Film Festival Short Story Award, 2004
“Cause for Alarm”  *Second Place, Denver Women’s Press Club Writing Contest, 2004
 “The Secret Life of Coral” © Nights Publications, 2002
Excerpt from "Food of the Gods" in Her Fork in the Road © Travelers’ Tales, 2001
Writer’s Digest Competition, Honorable Mention, 2001
Writers at Work Competition, Finalist, 2001
Siemens Sunscape Solar Energy Journal, vol. 6, no.1, p.2, 1999
Editor, Granger's Index to Poetry, 9th ed., 2082 pp.  © Columbia University Press, 1990
Assistant Editor, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 1400 pp. © Birkhäuser Boston, 1988

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
DENISON UNIVERSITY, Guest Presenter, March 2007
COLORADO FILM SCHOOL, Guest Presenter, March 2005
BOULDER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Workshop Presenter, Feb 2005
MOONDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, Workshop Presenter, May 2004
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER, Guest Presenter, April 2003 and Feb 2004
BOULDER BOOKSTORE, Panelist on Travel Writing, Oct 2003
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, Expository Writing Instructor, 2000-2002
EMERSON COLLEGE, Boston, MA, Guest Presenter, Apr 2002
BERKELEY SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, Guest Presenter, Apr 2000
JACKSON HOLE FILM FESTIVAL, Panelist on the making of NOVA’s “Roman Bath,” Oct 1999
YOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE, Trenton, NJ, Creative Writing Instructor, 1992-93
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, "The Athenian Trireme:  Past and Present," a multimedia presentation combining historical,  textual, archaeological evidence, and a first-hand rowing account,1990
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY, Latin Instructor (language and literature), 1987-88
INLINGUA, Helsinki, Finland, English Instructor (language), 1984-85
MIAMI UNIVERSITY, Oxford, OH, German Instructor (language), 1980-81

LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE
French, German: read, speak, write
Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek: read, speak
Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit: read

EDUCATION
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PhD, 1993 (Comparative Lit./Classics); MA, 1992 (Comp. Lit.); MA, 1991 (Classics)
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, MA, 1988 (Latin)
OBERLIN COLLEGE, BA, 1984 (Classics;  minors:  History, Art History)           

OTHER SKILLS
Mac, Quicken, Excel, Photoshop, AVID, Final Cut Pro, Dreamweaver
Cellist, painter, yoga teacher, scuba diver, tournament Scrabble player