Author/Writer
Dr. Michele Meek’s most recent books include Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies (2023 Indiana University Press), Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos (2019 Routledge), 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.
Her most recent award-winning short film Bay Creek Tennis Camp is an original take on youth and gender inclusivity in sports. She also directed the award-winning short film Imagine Kolle 37 is a documentary/narrative hybrid about two children 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.
She is currently working on an international documentary feature project The Impermanence of Everything and has several series and feature script projects in the works.
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 was 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.
Michele working with students at the first annual Bridge Student Film Festival as part of her Film Festival Production class.
Professor
Dr. Meek is a tenured Associate Professor of Communication at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts where she teaches filmmaking, screenwriting, film studies, digital media, gender studies, and life design.
She has won numerous awards for her teaching and service to the university, including Advisor of the Year (2020); the Dr. Robert A. Daniel Award for Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice: Supporting the Success of Bridgewater State University’s Student (2021); and a Mass Colleges Online Open Education Resource Award for her course Social Media Tools (2022). Students in her Documentary Film Production class have had their class films in festivals and won awards. In 2023, she launched a Film Festival Production class where students now run The Bridge Student Film Festival as part of the annual class.
She has also been instrumental at launching a life design initiative and curriculum at the university, and her work is featured in a case study on the Stanford University Life Design Studio website.