SPEAKER | TEDx
MICHELE BARNWELL, TEDxUstreetWomen talk title: “Scripting Your Own Reality” [TRT 17MIN]
Washington D.C. In December 2019, Michele gave a TEDx talk on the perils of allowing other people to define for you what you’re capable of accomplishing. Using a personal secret and her professional experience combined, the talk is crafted as a call to action for those whose lives have until now been lived ‘inside a box’.
PANELIST | 2018 Global Content Conference — Seoul, Korea
서울 강남구 Gangnam-Gu Seoul, South Korea. Panel discussion and Q&A on viable strategies for making content that connects. Pictured L to R: Moderator Kim Chiho (김치호, 한양대학교 문화콘텐츠학과장), Michele Barnwell , Jae Kim (Indigo/NBC Universal).
Photo credit: KOCCA
SPEAKER | 2018 Global Content Conference — Seoul, Korea
MICHELE BARNWELL PRESENTATION TITLE: “Creating An Authentic Story in Documentary and Unscripted Content” [TRT 30MIN]
서울 강남구 Gangnam-Gu Seoul, South Korea. With twenty-seven invited experts from around the world— including speakers from China, France, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Vietnam —Michele was invited to design a 30min talk for the 2018 Global Content Conference. The theme of the conference was “Connecting Content, Platforms and the World”.
The conference was hosted by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), a governmental agency, and the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. All conference events were held at the Coex Convention Hall in the Gangnam-Gu area of Seoul.
“The make-up of your team will always impact the depth of your project.”
—Michele Barnwell | December 12, 2018 @Coex Conference Hall. Gangnam-Gu Seoul
Photo Credit: KOCCA
PANELIST | 2019 StorySHIFT: A Conversation About Accountability in Storytelling
Atlanta, Georgia. StoryShift included a panel discussion on Accountable Storytelling as well as a moderated conversation on the topic with the audience— educators, activists, community organizers and media professionals.
PANELIST | 2019 Vista Entertainment and Blacks in Technology [B.I.T.]
Beverly Hills, CA. Panel discussion and Q&A highlighting the benefits and challenges of navigating a career in entertainment, for an audience of tech professionals.
Pictured L to R: Moderator Keevon Sanders (Vista Entertainment), Brittany Allen (Brand Manager, 72andSunny), Lynette Jones (VP/Sr Legal Counsel AT&T Ent. Group), Matt Boatright-Simon (Founder, Boatright Picture+Sound), Michele Barnwell.
PANELIST | HUE YOU KNOW LA "Moving the Glass Ceiling: Ways Women Win in the Industry"
Los Angeles, CA Women’s History Month panel sponsored by Hue You Know (LA). Women of color in media share their experiences as well as offer advice and encouragement to those who want to break the glass ceiling and move up in their careers.
PANELIST | FactualWEST Conference 2018 "How We Tell The Truth: A Big Picture Conversation on Factual Storytelling" — Vancouver B.C.
Vancouver B.C. CANADA A panel of three industry Executive Producers share the means and methods by which they deliver story in documentary and serialized factual content, as a moderator guides the conversation.
KEYNOTE DISCUSSION | FactualWEST Conference 2018 "The Making of FlintTown"
Vancouver B.C. CANADA An in-depth discussion on the making of Netflix’s FlintTown. How it has found audiences, what went into production, securing access, developing storylines and more. Followed by a Q&A.
“The directors’ use of light and dark and negative space within their lens was unlike I’d EVER seen... just beautiful in the raw.”
-Michele Barnwell November 3, 2018 Keynote Discussion FactualWEST on the visual style of FlintTown directors Jessica Dimmick, Drea Cooper and Zachary Canepari
PANELIST | JauntXR "Keeping The World Interesting: Solving the Problems of Immersive Storytelling"
Los Angeles, CA Expert storytellers take a look at the challenging transition from storytelling in 2D to storytelling in multiple dimensions while also providing solutions to a new generation of makers, in this LA Times Festival of Books panel discussion.
Jaunt is a Silicon Valley based tech company at the forefront of using machine learning and AI to create volumetric videos of humans.
L to R: Michele Barnwell, Alton Glass (Immersive Storyteller), Patrick Meegan (Creative Dir. JauntXR), Kamal Sinclair (Sr Consultant Sundance Institute). Not pictured: Miles Perkins (Business Dev. Manager Epic Games & former Marketing Head, JauntXR).
SPEAKER | BLACKS IN TECHNOLOGY [B.I.T.] "What's Missing In Your Code? STORY!"
Santa Monica, CA. This talk was presented to a meet-up of Black technologists who gather monthly on Google’s Santa Monica, CA campus. Theme of the talk as seen in B.I.T.’s announcement below.
Announcement by: Blacks In Technology || Pictured: Michele Barnwell—@Google August 2, 2017
MODERATOR | Doc U Point Of View: "Leveraging The Expanding Black Media Market"
Los Angeles, CA In this panel sponsored by the International Documentary Association, DocU, and the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West participants discuss the impact of multi-platform media on how content is being made; and what this may mean for content that centers the Black experience.
Executive producer/showrunner Michele Barnwell moderates the discussion with Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (Music by Prudence), director/producer Jorge Hinojosa, TV exec Angela Northington, and producer Kimberley Browning.
