A Brief Maureen Gosling Bio
Although best known as an Editor, Maureen Gosling has participated in all
aspects of documentary filmmaking for twenty-nine years, most significantly
as a partner in Flower Films with acclaimed independent director, Les Blank.
She was Co Filmmaker with Blank on a dozen of the more than 22 films they did
together.
She was also editor and/or sound recordist: including,
-
J'ai Été au
Bal: The Cajun and Zydeco Music of Louisiana, broadcast nationwide on the
American Experience;
- Routes of Rhythm, with Harry Belafonte, a three-hour
series broadcast nationwide on PBS; and
- Burden of Dreams (on the tribulations
of German director Werner Herzog shooting his feature Fitzcarraldo in the
Peruvian Amazon), which in 1983 received a British Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature, was broadcast nationwide on P.B.S. and was on 12 U.S.
critics Top Ten List of the Best Films in 1982.
Gosling was nominated for Best Editing by The American Cinema Editors for
Burden of Dreams.
Gosling recently completed her first film as
Producer/Director, and Editor,
Blossoms of Fire, a 16mm, 74-minute
documentary. Blossoms explores the culture of the legendary Zapotecs of
southern Oaxaca, who have been called Mexico's Matriarchy.
Blossoms premiered at the San Francisco International
Film Festival.
In recent years, Gosling edited:
-
Stripped and Teased, a one-hour documentary
on ten
women trying to make a real life in the unreal town of Las Vegas;
- The Way Home, a 90-minute video on eight different ethnic groups of women telling of
their experiences and thoughts on racism in the U.S.;
- Bomba: Dancing the Drum, one hour, on the Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance tradition called
Bomba and the legendary Cepeda family; and
- Boys Will Be Men, on the
socialization of boys in the
United States.
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22 September 2002