Professor of Practice • sagreyta@syr.edu

Independent filmmaker Sharon Greytak has written, produced and directed feature-length fiction films, documentaries, and experimental shorts. Her films include the award-winning international documentary Losing It exploring quality of life issues and physical disability shot on three continents. Her critically acclaimed narrative feature films include The Love Lesson the story of an unconventional adoption arrangement between two women and their HIV positive heterosexual son, and the award-winning Hearing Voices exploring a model's private and public identities. Earlier films include the seminal documentary Weirded Out And Blown Away, and experimental films Some Pleasure on the Level of the Source and Czechoslovakian Woman. Currently, Greytak works on a narrative feature involving linear memory, secrecy and dementia.

Her work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, The Film Society at Lincoln Center, Village East Cinema NYC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; George Eastman House, Rochester; Laemmle Theatres Los Angeles, American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, AFI FilmFest; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC; Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, REDCAT Hollywood; Wexner Center, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Wadsworth Atheneum MATRIX 126; Film de Femmes Creteil France; Bela Balasz Studio, Budapest, Florence Film Festival, Italy and numerous festivals abroad. She is the recipient of a CINE Golden Eagle and has won awards at Chicago International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, Black Maria, and Athens International Film Festival. She was invited to participate in the American Film Institute's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, and has received fellowships from New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Soros Documentary Fund, Jerome Foundation, ArtsLink/CEC International Partners (production in Siberia), Arts International (music collaboration w/German composer Cord Meiering), and the American Film Institute.

Reviews and profiles of her work have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Artforum, Artscribe International, Cinemad Magazine (online), NYC Commission on the Status of Women report, and the textbook Launching the Imagination (McGraw-Hill).

In addition to her film work, Greytak serves on the board of the The Film-Makers' Cooperative and has been a panelist for the Non-Traditional Casting Project, NYC, Arts in Universal Environments Conference, Providence RI, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Novosibirsk Russia, and "Ideology of the Margin: Gender, Race and Culture" sponsored by the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Her films are in the collection of MoMA, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Open Society Archive Budapest; Consumer Protection Agency, and the American Friends Service Committee. Distribution is with Leisure Time Features and the Cinema Guild, NYC.


MFA: Post-Studio, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
BFA: Painting, Hartford Art School; University of Hartford