Michele Meek, Ph.D.

About Michele Meek

Author/Writer

Dr. Michele Meek’s most recent books include Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies (2023), Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos (2019), and The Mastermind Failure Club (2020).

She has published articles in numerous industry publications including Entrepreneur, Ms. Magazine, Script Magazine, Salon.com and MovieMaker Magazine, in addition to peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Popular Film and Television and Girlhood Studies. She also co-edited the book The Independent’s Guide to Film Distribution (2014). She is also frequently consulted as an expert in interviews about the film industry, and she gave a 2018 TEDx talk “Why We’re Still Confused About Consent—Rewriting Our Stories of Seduction.”

Filmmaker

Dr. Meek is an award-winning director and writer whose films have screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Anthology Film Archives in New York, as well as at festivals, events, and schools across the world.

She is currently working on two projects: a short narrative film about youth and gender inclusivity Bay Creek Tennis Camp and an international documentary feature project The Impermanence of Everything.

Her most recent award-winning short film Imagine Kolle 37  is a documentary/narrative hybrid about two girls who imagine their way to a real Berlin adventure playground. In addition, she has written and directed several other award-winning narrative and documentary short films, including Red Sneakers and Conversations with Women: Masturbation. She also worked as associate producer on the documentary Salvage, which premiered at SXSW Film Festival in March 2019.

Entrepreneur

Dr. Meek founded NewEnglandFilm.com whose jobs page was recently acquired and relaunched by Women in Film and Video New England. She also led the transition of the 30-year-old magazine, The Independent, to the nonprofit organization Independent Media Publications, which was acquired by Emerson College.

She has built and managed websites for over 20 years for dozens of clients through her business Media Thinktank, and she is a Founding Member of the Mastermind Failure Club, a network for peer artistic and business support.

Her successes have been lauded in Inc. Magazine, National Public Radio, The Boston Globe, and Rhode Island Monthly.