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Hambidge congratulates Fellow, Rodney Evans, as a recipient of a 2008 Creative Capital Award in Film and Video. (See below for a link to the Creative Capital web site.) Rodney has been in residence at Hambidge twice and in 2007 was awarded The Nellie Mae Rowe Fellowship. Hambidge continues to support creativity by providing creative professionals with the setting + solitude + time necessary to explore new directions. We also salute Creative Capital for the vital role they play in funding creativity in America.
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Attention all Hambidge fellows! Please send us your news, items of interest, poetry, writing, and general digressions. Email them to - fellowspace@hambidge.org or mail them to: Hambidge PO Box 339 Rabun Gap, Georgia 30568
Rodney Evans holds a BFA from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media/Film Production and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Film Production. He has spent the past ten years creating films and videos that explore the intersection of race, class, sexuality and history in the everyday lives of African-Americans. These works include the experimental documentaries, CLOSE TO HOME and TWO ENCOUNTERS, and his latest feature length narrative film, BROTHER TO BROTHER. This most recent film was awarded The 2004 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize in Drama, The IFP’s Gordon Parks Award for Screenwriting as well as 12 other major film festival awards. BROTHER TO BROTHER was distributed theatrically in major cities across the U.S.and aired nationally on the PBS series, Independent Lens in June 2005. Mr. Evans is the recipient of fellowships and grants from several prestigious organizations including The Rockefeller Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, NYSCA, NYFA, The Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).