Bio

Caroline Savery is an independent digital video producer out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has been training and working in video production since 2000. Between 2000 and 2008, she produced and/or directed over two dozen short films, ranging in style and content from documentaries to genre pieces to experimental narratives. Three of her shorts have won awards at various regional film festivals, including the Fox 61 Sutdent News Award (Hartford, CT) in 2002 for 'Walk Against Hunger'. Prior to graduating from Point Park University in 2008 with a B.A. in Cinema & Digital Arts, she was one of seven finalists nominated school-wide for the Outstanding Graduating Senior award of 2008.

Caroline is deeply involved in human rights and social justice activism. A member of Amnesty International since 2002, and a student group coordinator from 2002-2004, she was one of 50 students selected internationally to attend AIUSA's 2006 Youth Activist Kollege, a weekend retreat for outstanding student organizers. In February 2007, she traveled to Roblito, Mexico to assist with the pilot year of the Roblito Community Center for Cultural Exchange project. Since moving to Pittsburgh in 2004, she has been involved with Pittsburgh Organizing Group, notably participating in their 2007 End War Fast in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. She also volunteers regularly with Free Ride! (a local bicycle co-op), Landslide Community Farm, Book 'Em (a books to prisoners program), and Big Idea Bookstore.