- Web Links
- http://karaheroldmedia.com
- IMDB Link
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2200347/
Kara Herold
(She/Her)
Associate ProfessorSyracuse University
Kara Herold’s films employ wit, thought-provoking storytelling, and dynamic visual assemblages to comment upon the uneasy intersections between feminist perspectives and dominant cultural expectations and institutions.
Full Bio
Education
2000 San Francisco State University, M.F.A., Film/Video Production
1991 University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., World Literature
Current & Past Positions
2017 Excellence in Teaching Award, Syracuse University, December 2017
2019-2023 Film Program Coordinator, Syracuse University
2012-present Associate Professor, Film and Media Arts, Syracuse University
2008-2011 Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
2007-2008 Lecturer, San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
Awards & Honors (highlights)
2023 VPA Grant ($5,000), Mid-Film Crisis
2023 NYSCA Grant, The Callback
2022 Bachelorette, 34 screened at Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts and Screen/Society, along with the Power Plant Gallery
2021 Faculty Grant, Syracuse University, The Callback
2020 Best Feature Director for 39½ from LA Femme International Film Festival
2020 Additional awards for 39½: Toronto International Women Film Festival (Best Female Director), Chicago Indie Film award (Best F
2000 San Francisco State University, M.F.A., Film/Video Production
1991 University of California at Los Angeles, B.A., World Literature
Current & Past Positions
2017 Excellence in Teaching Award, Syracuse University, December 2017
2019-2023 Film Program Coordinator, Syracuse University
2012-present Associate Professor, Film and Media Arts, Syracuse University
2008-2011 Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
2007-2008 Lecturer, San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
Awards & Honors (highlights)
2023 VPA Grant ($5,000), Mid-Film Crisis
2023 NYSCA Grant, The Callback
2022 Bachelorette, 34 screened at Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts and Screen/Society, along with the Power Plant Gallery
2021 Faculty Grant, Syracuse University, The Callback
2020 Best Feature Director for 39½ from LA Femme International Film Festival
2020 Additional awards for 39½: Toronto International Women Film Festival (Best Female Director), Chicago Indie Film award (Best F
- Professional Credits
- FILMS IN POST-PRODUCTION
2024 Mid-Film Crisis | 60 min hybrid narrative-documentary | In Post-production
* Real and fictional worlds collide as filmmaker Kara casts an actress as “Kara” in a film about a single filmmaker trying to have a baby.
SELECTED FILMS
2024 The Callback | 13 min fiction comedy | post-production
* The Callback is a short comedy about a struggling artist in an out-of-touch film industry. The film blends fiction, animation, humor, and poetry to call out an industry where women are underrepresented and underwritten.
* Premiered at Maryland Film Festival in 2024.
2019 39 ½ | 90 min fiction comedy
* 39 ½ mixes narrative drama, comic irony, and animation to follow the journey of a single, female experimental filmmaker pushing 40 and hell-bent on having a child.
* Premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. October 2019. A top 10 US Film Festival.
* Selected screenings include the SF Indie Fest, Syracuse International Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Dallas Video Fe
- Industry Awards
- Excellent in teaching (film) award in 2017 from Syracuse University.
Best Fiction Director (La Femme International Film Festival)
