Drew Swedberg

Drew Swedberg is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, educator, and basketball coach. Through a collaborative process and poetic approach, his filmmaking orbits around the everyday dreams, relationships, and forces that shape his home in Eastern Pennsylvania. Drew is the founder of Collaborative Media Expressions, a digital storytelling initiative focused on engaging, supporting, and cultivating emerging artists in Allentown, PA. He is an Adjunct Professor in Lafayette College's Film and Media Studies Department and leads the independent film curation for the Civic Theatre, Allentown's local arthouse cinema. Drew currently teaches an array of film classes from elementary to college classrooms, most recently as an instructor for PBS39's Middle School Media Lab and professor for the LVAIC Documentary Storymaking Capstone. He was a Visiting Fellow at Skidmore College's MDOCS Storytellers' Institute in 2020 and an Artist-in-Residence for the Cultural Coalition of Allentown in 2019 and 2021.

Grants Awarded to Drew Swedberg

$25,000 - Awarded August 2021

Focus areas

Movement Media

Description

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support "in love, in memory" as the film reframes local narratives about gun violence and urban renewal in Allentown, Pennsylvania by centering the stories, voices, and leadership of Black women.

$20,000 - Awarded December 2020

Focus areas

Movement Media

Description

The 2020 film grant will support "in love, in memory." In the wake of her son's murder, Shalon Buskirk assembles intimate memories and intergenerational stories to reframe her loss within her city's haunting legacy of displacement. This meditative portrait resists the erosive forces of time and violence by keeping her son Parris' life ever-present.

Related Projects

in love, in memory

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