KAREN PRICE

Director, Duke in LA

karen.price1@duke.edu
 

Raised in North Carolina and based in Los Angeles, filmmaker and educator Karen Elizabeth Price has taught over the last five years at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, Program in Arts of the Moving Image, and Sanford School of Public Policy. She received an MFA in cinema/television production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, winning several national awards including a Student Emmy. Other degrees include an MA in creative writing and English from Hollins University and an AB in English and political science from Duke. 

She directed, wrote, and produced the feature documentary HouseQuake, which won the Rhode Island International Film Festival’s Directorial Discovery Award at its festival premiere, received wide distribution from Brainstorm Media, and made its television debut on the Documentary Channel. Other writing and directing credits include her narrative short film gone and documentary Living by Instinct: Animals and Their Rescuers, which aired on PBS stations and screened at many festivals including the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival, and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. She has directed, produced, and written numerous television episodes on such networks as Lifetime, Animal Planet, Discovery Health, and BIO. In addition to directing Duke in Los Angeles and teaching, she is currently developing several documentary and fiction films. 

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