Shara K. Lange
Shara is founder and director of Light Projects: Documentary/Art/Community and Assistant Professor and Radio/TV/Film Program Head at East Tennessee State University. She completed her MFA in film production at the University of Texas with emphases on documentary and experimental film. Her thesis documentary about North African immigrant women in southern France, The Way North, premiered at the Arab Film Festval in San Francisco in 2008and is distributed by Third World Newsreel. In 2007, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study Arabic and to make the documentary, The Dressmakers, in Morocco. She has previously worked as Associate Producer on a documentary series about declining marine fisheries, Empty Oceans, Empty Nets, and on Steven Okazaki’s HBO documentary, Rehab and taught at UDEM in Monterrey, Mexico from 2009-2010.
Lange was awarded the David Bruton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship for excellence in graduate research, research grants from The American Institute of Maghrib Studies, and has presented her work at several graduate conferences including, Sequels Graduate Symposium (Ethnic and Third World Literatures in the Department of English) and the French and Italian Graduate Student Organization (FIGSO) Conference. Text and images from her thesis documentary, The Way North: Maghrebi Women in Marseille, were published in Intersections: Women's and Gender Studies in Review across Disciplines, anInterdisciplinary Graduate Student Publication of the Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) department at The University of Texas at Austin.