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“Although I am a Black writer/director, I take as my personal model the filmmakers/writers of the French New Wave-that is to say I teach film, write about film and culture and write and direct films.”
Monroe is currently an Assistant Professor in the Film and Video Department at Columbia College Chicago where he teaches Screenwriting and Directing. Monroe also won the James Pendleton Fellowship in Screenwriting. Vaun has written several feature length screenplays, directed many film shorts, a feature length film and several plays. He has produced, written and directed narrative films that have screened in film festivals both nationally and internationally.
Monroe was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. He earned his BA in African-American Drama at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and his MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University in Philadelphia. Vaun has worked as a Licensed Psychiatric Technician and interned at two prominent and visionary production companies-Blackside Inc. in Boston and Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia.
Monroe is particularly concerned with the humanistic dramatic portrayal of Blacks in America. He considers himself a modern day Griot (African storyteller who passes the history of the village from one generation to the next) who utilizes the mediums of stage and film to narrate stories of the Black community. |
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