Bridget Murnane, producer, director, writer, and editor, is known for her creative treatments of dance film. Her animated film, Tournants, interpreted the history of concert dance in cutouts and premiered at the First Grand Prix Video Danse. Her 1989 short, For Dancers, an omnibus of four disparate dance sequences, screened in over 30 international festivals, received numerous awards and made its broadcast premier on the PBS’s "New Television." In 1994, Ms. Murnane produced her first feature film, Odile and Yvette at the Edge of the World, which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and is currently in theatrical release. Her film/video, Speakeasy women talkin’ mostly ‘bout men, received the Stuart Dabbs Award for Most Creative Film in 1995 from the American Motion Picture Society and her most recent film, The Black Boots, won awards at Worldfest Charleston, Black Maria Film Festival, Worldfest Houston, and the Schikaneder Short Film Festival, screened internationally in numerous festivals and was broadcast on the PBS’s "New Television." Ms. Murnane received an M.Ed from Lesley College in 1977, an M.A. in Dance from UCLA in 1985, and an M.F.A. from the UCLA Film School in 1990. She taught film and video production at the University of Texas at Austin from 1991-1993, and is presently teaching film production at Emerson College, where she received the Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award.