Kelcey Edwards  

Kelcey Edwards is an award-winning filmmaker, published author and art curator. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University. Edwards’ films have screened at top film festivals including SXSW, Silverdocs AFI/ Discovery Channel Film Festival, True/False and San Francisco Film Festival among others. Her films have been broadcast on PBS Independent Lens and received support from the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute, California Humanities, IFP and Chicken and Egg Pictures. Her fiction has appeared in storySouth and Border Crossing, her art writing has been published by Hamptons Art Hub and Salomon Contemporary, and her nonfiction has been published in New Voices from Stanford (Stanford University Press) and Persistence of Vision (Austin Film Society). Edwards moved to New York City in 2008 and worked as a film and commercial producer while lecturing at colleges and universities including Pratt, Barnard, The New School and NYU Tisch. She recently launched Iron Gate East, an exhibition series based in the Hamptons and New York City inspired by her pioneering gallery, Iron Gate Studios, which she co-founded in Austin in 2003. (01/20)