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About Us
Selena
A. Burks earned her B.F.A from
Wright
State
University
in 2003. With a fellowship grant from the
Wexner
Center
for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Selena completed Saving
Jackie in June 2004. Since then, she has presented Saving Jackie to a variety
of drug out reach programs, state and county child service organizations as well
as high schools and universities. Saving Jackie premiered at
the 2005 Sundance International Film Festival and has been shown at other film
festivals nationwide. In March 2006, Selena was one of 22 artist awarded the
prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship for her next feature
film Fuse. This project melds fiction and documentary to tell the story of a young
woman’s erratic teenage years as a runaway, based on the life of the
filmmaker’s foster sister. Selena currently lives in
Cincinnati
,
OH
and divides her time working on the development phase of Fuse and presenting Saving
Jackie to various organizations nationwide.
Professional Profile
I directed the documentary short
“Saving Jackie”, an unflinching saga of my family weathering the turmoil of
my mother's spiral out of crack-cocaine dependence. The film is used as training
material for child welfare professionals, foster parents, at-risk children and
recovering drug addicts. Highlights of some of my speaking events are as
followed:
| 9/14/04
-
Edgewood
College
,
Madison
,
WI
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| 9/16/04
- Brighter Futures,
Dayton
,
OH
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| 10/13/04
- Montgomery Co. Children
Services (Staff Mtg.),
Dayton,
OH
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| 11/2/04
- Wright State University,
Dayton
,
OH |
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| 11/23/04
- New
Choices
School Dayton
,
OH
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| 1/12/05
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University of Dayton, OH
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| 1/25/05
- Park City HS Park City,
UT |
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| 2/22/05
- ADAMHS Board,
Dayton
OH |
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| 3/19/05
- John Carrol University
Cleveland, OH |
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| 3/29/05
- Mahoney Co. Children
Services Recovering - Parents and Children Mtg Youngstown, OH. |
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| 8/19/05
- Cuyahoga Co. Family &
Children Services Riverside Symposium
Cleveland, OH |
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| 11/4/05 -
Lucas Co. Children
Services Caregivers Conference Toledo, OH |
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5/12/06 -
Southwest Ohio regional
Training Foster Parent Conference
Cincinnati, OH |
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| 6/12/06
- Summit County Children
Services Symposium: Victors or Victims, Promoting Resiliency in Children
Akron, OH |
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Keynote Speaker Selena Burks with NCORTC Coordinator Mark McMillian, and
Master of Ceremonies, Fox 8 Morning News Anchor Wayne Dawson of Cleveland,
at the 2005 Symposium of the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program
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Professional
Experience
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S.A.
Burks Productions,
Cincinnati
,
OH
02/05 -
present
Owner/Independent Filmmaker/Public Speaker
Achievements:
2006 Rockefeller/Ford Foundation Media Arts Fellowship Recipient
Official
Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Official
Selection of the 2005
Cleveland
International Film Festival
Official
Selection of the 2006
Brooklyn
International Film Festival
Responsibilities:
Distributing
copies of “Saving Jackie” to organizations and individuals
Organizing
speaking engagements and handling other avenues of Public
Relations
Bookkeeping
and Organizing Finances
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