Maureen Gosling
Editor
Maureen has been a documentary filmmaker for more than thirty years
and is best known for her twenty-year collaboration with
acclaimed independent director, Les Blank. Gosling has also
been sought after as an editor, working with such directors
as Tom Weidlinger, Shakti Butler, Jed Riffe, Amie Williams,
Ashley James and Pam Rorke Levy. Her work has often focused
on themes of people and their cultural values, music as
cultural expression and the changing gender roles of men and
women. Her films have been seen in countless film festivals
around the world, on national public and cable television, on television in Europe, Australia and Asia, and have been
distributed widely to educational institutions.
Gosling’s
Blossoms of Fire, a feature documentary filmed and edited
completely on 16mm, represents her debut as a Producer/Director.
The film is a celebratory tribute to the Isthmus Zapotec people
of southern Oaxaca, Mexico. Blossoms of Fire, an
Intrépidas Productions release, has garnered rave reviews,
charming audiences from San Diego to Marseille. The film won the
coveted Coral Award for Best Documentary by a Non-Latino
Director about Latin America at the Havana International Film
Festival. The film has also been broadcast on HBO Latino.
Gosling's story
of becoming a filmmaker is included in the brand new book
for junior high school girls, You Can Be a Woman Movie
Maker, published by Cascade Pass. The book includes a
15-minute video on DVD entitled Maureen Gosling,
Documentary Filmmaker. Along with Brazos Films' producer
Chris Strachwitz, Gosling recently co-produced two DVD
re-releases of Strachwitz and Les Blank's J'ai été au
Bal: I Went to the Dance, the Roots of Cajun and Zydeco
Music and Chulas Fronteras, the Roots of Tex Mex,
which include new "Bonus Footage."
