Cheryll Hidalgo
Cheryll Hidalgo, a parent and award winning film arts educator, learned to cut film at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her graduate film project, a personal short about the effects of the fashion industry on women entitled The Real You, Top to Bottom, was awarded a public screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center and was shown on public television in Chicago. After graduation, her careers as a machinist and political activist brought her to Seattle, where she worked for General Electric for nearly a decade and ran for public office in 1984. She spent another 10 years as a software engineer and computing consultant before deciding to return to her first love, film.
In 1999, Cheryll designed and founded the film/video production program at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, which she continues to head. Unique in its approach to the study of film as art, this program has produced numerous local and national award winning student films including a “Best of the Fest” at the One Reel Short Film Festival in Seattle, awards from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts (NFAA) and The National Derek Freese Student Film Festival sponsored by Temple University in Philadelphia. Cheryll is also the editor for The Film Company at the Northwest Film Forum. TFC is a film production studio that works with local, national and international directors to produce independent feature length films. Currently, Cheryll is editing a film with Canadian director Guy Maddin, slated to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 2006.
Contact
Film/Video Program
Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences
1100 12th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122
Tel 206.676.6827