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INGRID GRACE PFAU

Ingrid.g.pfau@gmail.com

205-215-3410

 

ACADEMICS:

  • Montana State University (MSU): 2011-2014

      GPA: 3.83/4.00

      MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking

 

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB): University Honors Program (UHP): 2007-2011

      GPA: 3.86/4.00                                  

      BS in Environmental Science Filmmaking

      Minor in Spanish

           

FILM PROJECTS:​

  • can-CAT-astrophy (Director/Editor, 1.5 min; 2016)

  • GÖKOVA'NIN YENİ LEZZETLERİ (Editor, 1.5 min; 2015)

  • Natural Perturbations (Director/Editor, 5min; 2015)

  • Swarmy Weather (Director/Editor, 6min; 2015)

  • ADA 25: Clorrita's Story (Director/Editor, 3min; 2015)

  • ADA 25: Cindy's Story (Director/Editor, 3min; 2015)

  • ADA 25: Bob's Story (Director/Editor, 3min; 2015)

  • ADA 25: Jerry's Story (Director/Editor, 3min; 2015)

  • Seizing the Unrecorded (Director, 29 min; 2014)

    • Winner of Best Student and Emerging Science Filmmaker award in the 2014 Jackson Hole Science Media Symposium in Boston (One of the 21 winning films out of the 480 films submitted. The film was judged by a total of 32 judges.)

    • Winner of Best of Fest at the 2014 Element Film Festival in Bozeman, MT in November 2014.

    • Winner of Best Short Film/Student Emerging Talent at the 2014 Gutsy Gals Film awards.

    • Finalist for the 20th Annual DGA Student Film Awards in the Women's category. (9 Finalists in total out of a national selection of films)

    • Finalist for 2015 Flathead Lake International Cinemafest (FLIC)

  • Epillepsy (Director, 5 min; 2013)

    • Runner up Prize Neuro Film Festival 2013 (A national film festival that takes place during the annual meeting of around 30,000 neurologists run by the American Academy of Neurology Spring 2013)

    • Featured in Element Film Festival 2013

  • Polished (Director, 12 min 30 seconds; 2013)

    • Film shown in Jaipur, India and Birmingham, Alabama to highlight the cultural exchange between USA students and Indian Students and how we can help each other.

  • XX + XY + LOVE = XX + XY (Director, 1 min 48 sec; 16mm, direct animation)

  • Fractured Ripples (Director, 3 min; 2013; 16mm)

  • Toilet Paper Video Installation  with three short movies about toilet paper.(Director, 3 movies totaling 30 minutes in length; 2013)

  • Pica hudsonia (Director, 3 min 18 seconds; 2012)

  • Fighting the Elements (Director, 7 min; 2012) (Film about Farming in Montana)

  • In the Air (Director, 9 min 26 sec; 2012)

    • Featured in Southern Exposure, a program run by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Screened all over Alabama including IMAX

  • The Jewel of Alabama: Conserving the Tensaw Delta (Cinematographer, 12 min; 2012)

    • Featured in Southern Exposure, a program run by the Southern Environmental Law Center. Screened all over Alabama including IMAX

  • Vivid Caldera (Director, 5 min; 2012)

    • ​Featured on website about Yellowstone National Park

  • Diamondback Terrapin: The Brackish Water Turtle (Director, 14 min 43 sec; 2011)

    • Shown at Regional and National Biology Conventions 2011-2015

  • Where’s the Water (Director, 1 min; 2010, animation)

    • 2nd place Koronis Fest Animated Short

  • Lunchables (Director, 3 min; 2010)

    • 3rd place Koronis Fest Live Action Short

  • Yakkin About Diversity. (Director, 2 min 30 seconds; 2010)

    • 2nd place UAB Film Scramble for Diversity Week

  • Aufflammande ungleicheit (Director, 3 min; 2009)

    • 2nd place UAB Film Scramble for Diversity Week

  • Circumambulated Seeing (Director, 5 minutes 20 seconds; 2009)

    • Accepted to Southern Regional Honors Conference (SRHC)

  • He Held Radical Light (Director, 4 min 38 seconds; 2007-2009)

    • Accepted to SRHC and National Honors Conference (NCHC)

  • Saved, the Story of the Watercress Darter, (Director, 10 min; 2008)

    • Accepted to SRHC and NCHC

    • Accepted to Sidewalk Film Festival (2009)

    • Featured movie for leading Freshmen Book Discussion for UAB (2009)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

  • Videographer at the Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, AL. The Lakeshore Foundation is an Olympic/Paralympic training site with special programs for people with disabilities. The films I make vary in style: informational vs. documentary vs. experimental. I am currently working on films about Goalball, wheelchair basketball, as well as movies about making people move more and eat better . (February 2015-Current)

  • Working with UAB and Continuing Medical Education on films about Strokes. (Spring 2015, Spring 2016)

  • Working with Dr. Jasvinder Singh at the VA Hospital on a Video Research Study about Gout. I will be working on 36 video interviews of patients with Gout in Birmingham, AL and Philadelphia (September 2014 - June 2015). 

  • Working with The Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham as a Freelancer on 2 films about single mothers studying to become pharmacy technicians. (October 2014-April 2015)

  • Teachers Assistant Spring 2015, Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 for Ethnographic Filmmaking Class at UAB

  • Filming an Earthship being built in Big Sky, MT for a month, May 2013

  • Element Film Festival Art Show Curator, Fall 2012

  • Element Film Festival Co-leader, Fall 2012

  • Southern Exposure. (Make a 10 minute film about the air quality in Birmingham, AL for the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC)), Summer 2012

  • Chairman, University Honors Program (UHP) Steering Committee (Oversee all 13 Honors Program student committees), 2010-2011

  • Head of University Honors Media Committee (make films about UHP) Fall 2009-2011

  • Filming for a Public Health Film combating obesity in Hispanic immigrants, Spring 2010

 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

SCHOLARSHIPS:

  • Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award, 2011-2014, (Each year, 10 students are selected from all over the USA to receive this competitive and prestigious scholarship/fellowship. The scholarship funds up to $50,000 of academic expenses a year, for three years, to any graduate program in the world.)

  • The Dean’s Leadership Scholarship, 2010-2011 academic year

  • Gilman International Scholarship (National study away scholarship given to outstanding undergraduates who qualify for FASFA), Summer 2010

  • Steven C. Smith Discovery Scholarship, (A yearly UHP scholarship), 2009-2011

  • Spencer Honors Scholarship (A yearly UHP scholarship), 2008-2009 academic year

  • University Scholars Award (Full tuition and fees allowance to UAB) 2007-2011

AWARDS:

  • Winning print for ColorsofLife@university. “Ventanas Naturales,”  (An international photo contest supporting neurological research) Fall 2010

  • Three photographs published in Sanctuary (Southern Regional Honors Literary Journal), Fall 2010

  • Second place for “U.S. Students Abroad” category in 2010 UAB International Education Week Photo Contest. Photo: “Siesta de Flores” Fall 2010

  • Outstanding Foreign Language Student Award, Spring 2010

  • Digital Community Studies Chair Award (Given to the one student that exemplifies the essence of what it is to study communities using digital means), Spring 2010

  • Best Writers Award for UAB Sophomores, Spring 2009

  • Cover Contest Winner for Sanctuary, Spring 2009

  • Acceptance to University Honors Program (1 of 50 nationally selected students), 2007-2011

 

FILMMAKING SKILLS/SOFTWARE:

  • Conducting Documentary Style Interviews:

    • I prefer a noninvasive interview style with no lights. I like the single camera set up with one person asking questions and one person behind the camera. If I have the choice, I usually ask the questions. If necessary I have a camera set up where I can control the camera as well as ask the questions. I can also use a 2-camera set up, and conduct walk and talk interviews. It’s nice to keep interviews more conversational and less informational.

  • Camera Operator:

    • I have used a variety of cameras on shoots. 90% of the cameras have been digital, but I am familiar with 16mm cameras. I currently own a Canon C100 Mark II and a Canon Rebel T3i DSLR camera. I use a GH4 at work. I am familiar with both wired and wireless lavs, and boom microphones. If the camera set up is complicated I prefer working with a group.

  • Software:

    • Video Editing: Final Cut X, Final Cut 7, Adobe Premiere Pro 6, Basics of the rest of the Adobe Sweet. Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. 

 

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