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Rebecca M. Alvin

Rebecca M. Alvin, a native New Yorker, started out working toward a career in music, 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 intensely personal 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 (Distributor: The Cinema Guild) , 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 and relocated to Cape Cod in 2000.

After completing a tribute documentary about Broadway actress Rose Inghram (commissioned by the Rose Inghram Trust), she began work on a film about women and the Catholic Church. This latest documentary, Women of Faith, was just completed in October 2008 and will be screening at various venues around the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a commissioned film about the Town of Truro, Mass.

In addition to being a filmmaker, she teaches film at The New School, Curry College and Cape Cod Community College and writes for numerous publications, including Cineaste and the Journal of Film and Video. She is also editor of Provincetown Magazine and founder of the Cape Cod Film Society Screening Series.