Nathalie Applewhite

25 September 2006

Nathalie Applewhite has worked nationally and internationally on documentaries, educational, political and commercial productions as a producer, director, and editor. She has also worked as a project manager and media specialist for the University of Pennsylvania's Literacy Research Center, and as a consultant for the United Nations.

Co-founder and director of vis a vis productions. Her documentary Picture Me an Enemy, about two young women from the former Yugoslavia, won several awards, including best documentary in the Philadelphia Film Festival of Independents, and was nominated for a regional Emmy in the category of Outstanding Documentary Program. The film has screened in festivals and universities both internationally and nationally. She is also the recipient of the Leeway Foundation's Harmony grant for projects that promote racial, religious and ethnic tolerance.

Nathalie earned a master's degree from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University where she concentrated in international security policy with a regional concentration in the Middle East; and co-founded and directed the Media and Communications in War and Peace student group.

During her time at Columbia, she was also a delegate on the US-Syria Citizen's Exchange program and is currently editing footage and interviews from her trip into a 30-minute documentary.

Her research interests lie at the intersections of media, democracy, and nationalism, and in the role of media in war and its potential in conflict prevention, resolution and peace-building. Nathalie co-presented a workshop on the subject of war and representation at the International Institute on Peace Education's 2005 Program, and presented a talk and on Picturing the Enemy at Columbia University in the Fall of 2005.

Phone: 202.797.2922 | E-mail: [email protected]