Matt and Cornelia Barr

What: "With These Hands", "Carnival Train", "Wild Caught"
When: "With These Hands" - 8:30 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
"Carnival Train" - 6:30 pm Friday, April 9, 2010
"Wild Caught" - 5:30pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Studio Theater, HCC Performing Arts Building
Tickets: $5

Cornelia and Matt Barr

Cornelia Barr

After careers as a medieval archaeologist, book editor, and writer, Cornelia Wright Barr never anticipated working in filmmaking. She quickly learned that storytelling is storytelling, whether conveyed through words on the page or flickering visual images.

For the Unheard Voices Project, she handles marketing and publicity and is in charge of planning and fundraising for the video archive project.

She continues to write on diverse topics, from history and antiques to high-tech start-ups. She also herds the family posse of two dogs and five cats and runs a worm-composting operation called the Ladies Who Lunch.

Matt Barr

Matthew Barr has been involved with filmmaking since he was thirteen when he made his first 16-mm film with a Bell & Howell wind-up camera.

He holds a B.A. from San Francisco State College and an M.F.A. from UCLA in film production. He has worked as a still photographer, been a freelance screenwriter, worked on an organic farm, driven a rig cross-country, and spent five seasons with a traveling carnival show.

As a screenwriter, he co-wrote the scripts for two Hollywood feature films, "Deadly Blessing" (1981) and The Forgotten (1989), as well as other scripts that were optioned but never saw the light of day. While teaching at the University of Miami in 1990, he moved into documentary production with "Crimes of Hate", a film produced in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League as a training tool for police departments in recognizing and combating hate crimes.

Matt currently is an associate professor of film production at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where he has taught since 1994. He is a founder and actively involved in The Unheard Voices Project.