HARRIETTE YAHR
Harriette Yahr AKA Hey! Yahr is a writer and filmmaker. When not involved in her own projects, she consults, runs workshops, writes/edits for hire and does freelance film and video production.
- Harriette graduated with Honors in Film Studies from Dartmouth College and received two Academic Citations for Excellence (in Electronic Music and in the Science of Color). She received her MFA in Visual Arts from UC, San Diego (4.0 GPA).
- Award-winning short films have screened at festivals worldwide, including the Telluride Film Festival. Baker's Men, the first in a series of "Modern Rhymes" film, aired on the Sundance Channel, was called "refreshingly clever" by IndieWire and is distributed by the Spiritual Cinema Circle (SCC).
- Journalism and interviews have appeared in various publications including IndieWire, on the Huffington Post, Salon, Hana Hou! (The Hawaiian Airlines Magazine), the Miami Herald, and DOX, the European Documentary Network Magazine.
- Grants and Fellowships include an NEA Regional Fellowship, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and a Flaherty Seminar Fellowship.
- Harriette has been a guest lecturer at New York Film Academy, Columbia College Chicago and Dartmouth College.
- Harriette has sat on film festival panels including at Nashville, Atlanta, Miami, and received a US Embassy Travel grant to participate in a film festival in Ankara, Turkey.
- Additionally, she has covered film festivals and film markets such as Toronto, Berlin, Sundance, CPH:DOX (Copenhagen) and the IFP Market (NYC) either as a journalist or an acquisitions and programming consultant.
- Harriette founded Miami Film Workshops and Maui Film School. Before that, she taught film production (to undergraduates) and cinematography (to graduate students) at the University of Miami and screenwriting and filmmaking workshops at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, Art Center South Florida, and Miami Light Project.
- Harriette equally enjoys 1) creating her own work and 2) helping others develop the skills and confidence to thrive creatively and professionally.
- Other things she enjoys include: printmaking, handmade books and boxes, sailing, golf, ping-pong, and dark chocolate.