Cynthia White is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Her work leans on personal narratives as a framework for exploring our social, political and biological relationships. She produces videos and installations that explore this interconnectedness. Recent and ongoing work includes: The Ex-Utero collective, Sentinel Lands: The Geospace of Mine Fires and a series of documentary animated shorts about artistic process and mental health. White’s work is influenced by her interests in storytelling, myth, mapping, and texture.
White’s directorial work for a series of animated short films about mental health have been featured at many national and international film festivals and won awards at festivals including: Best Shorts Competition, The Impact DOCS Award, Independent Shorts Awards, Docs Without Borders Film Festival, and A Show for Change Film Festival. Other indie films include a documentary called Ship Spotters that screened at BLUE Ocean Film Festival and Conservation Summit and Death Down Under (co-directed with Kathy High), screened at multiple national and international conferences. Bird Dog, a short film she wrote and directed, aired on Movieola The Short Film Channel. Sobarzo Pega Fuerte won best documentary at the Valdivia International Film Festival and was later broadcast on TVN, Chile. White’s TV experience includes award winning, international productions like El Show de los Libros (a Latin American literary television show broadcast on People + Arts) and a Bill Moyer’s PBS documentary America’s First River: Stories from the Hudson.
Cynthia currently works at Penn State University as an Adjunct Research Associate in the College of Arts and Architecture at the Art and Design Research Incubator She teaches classes in digital media and social practice as well as visual storytelling. White has an MFA in Film and Television.