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Rebecca M. Alvin

Rebecca M. Alvin, a native New Yorker, started out working toward a career as a rock guitarist, studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, when she got sidetracked from a Film Scoring major there to a Filmmaking major at Emerson College in Boston. After her final student film, Untitled (No.1) won finalist honors at the 1994 Visual Artists Film & Video Competition in San Jose, CA, Rebecca moved on to edit and produce numerous corporate and medical tapes in New York, before returning to more creative pursuits with the 1996 film, Voices , which screened at the Utah Short Film & Video Festival and elsewhere. Her first documentary, Our Bodies, Our Minds , a feature-length exploration of feminism and sex work, premiered in 2001 at the 20th Annual Women in the Director's Chair International Film & Video Festival in Chicago and has gone on to screen worldwide, from Berlin to San Francisco. Shortly after that, Rebecca completed her Master of Arts degree in Media Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Ms. Alvin relocated from New York to Cape Cod in 2000 , where she completed an interactive video, The Rumor , using primarily local talent and a short video, Clock , on the theme of running out of time. She is also active writing, teaching, and curating on Cape Cod. Her writing has appeared in several Community Newspaper Co. publications, including The Cape Codder and also in Cape Cod Magazine. She is founder and curator of the Cape Cod Film Society Screening Series and has also curated film/video shows at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum and the Woods Hole Film Festival Winter Screening Series. She has taught film and media studies at the New School in New York, Emerson College in Boston, and at Cape Cod Community College.