FILM
Ife founded Collected Voices, Chicago's Ethnographic Film Festival in 2015 to help provide more screening opportunities to student, and minority filmmakers with a special focus on local filmmakers. Collected Voices now has a social media following and a catalog of more than 100 original films for screening. CV continues to expand and welcomes submission for 2019!
DOCUMENTARY
Ife is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and editor working more than 10 years at capturing women, men, and children worldwide. In 2014 Ife became a Kartemquin DVID Fellow. Ife has been production coordinator for PBS Web Series, Veterans Coming Home, Editor for Gwendolyn Brooks Documentary, Brooks People, and Assistant Editor for, Born in the Struggle.
ENTHNOGRAPHY
Freedom Lover Films is a social-cultural production company, started after Ife won best experimental documentary at the 2006 New York Film and Video Festival. Since then Ife has incorporated art and anthropology in various mediums including, writing, journalism, music videos, fiction films, teaching, exhibition, distribution, and mentorship for emerging ethnographers.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Ife was introduced to Anthropology at a young age by a family friend. She knew she wanted to travel the world taking pictures by the end of high school. Ife received her BA in Anthropology and minor in African American History from Syracuse '06, and her MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester, UK in 2010. Ife's focus is on observational and cinema veriti, longitudinal study through embedded fieldwork.
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