Beverly Seckinger is a Professor and the Interim Director of the School of Media Arts. She teaches courses in video production and documentary studies, and since 1993 has directed the Lesbian Looks Film and Video Series.
Her films have been screened at international festivals in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. Seckinger's 2004 diary/documentary Laramie Inside Out explores the ongoing reverberations in her hometown community of Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder. Laramie Inside Out won the Best of Arizona award at the 2004 Arizona International Film Festival, and is distributed by New Day Films, Filmoption/Canada, and American Public Television. To date, Laramie Inside Out has been purchased for the permanent collections of over 100 colleges and universities across the U.S., as well as public libraries, high schools, church resource centers and community education programs.
She is currently in production on Hippie Family Values, a feature-length documentary that explores the historical and contemporary hippie counterculture of the southwest.
Read about Beverly Seckinger in Research News.
Website for Bev's film, Laramie Inside Out.
Bev's web page at New Day Films.