Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Art & Public Policy
Courses
1st year: Silent Film Aesthetics
2nd year: Film Style
3rd year: Narrative Structure
Genre/Script Analysis
Biography
Gail Segal is a poet and filmmaker. Among her film and video credits: Peabody Award Winning film, Arguing the World (Co-Producer), Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me (Associate Producer and Story Consultant), and a 15 part television series hosted by Walter Matthau, The Shakespeare Hour. Her first book of poems, In Gravity' Pull was published in 2002. Translations of the Italian poet, Alfredo de Palchi appear in his book length collection, Addictive Aversions. Recent poems are found in Chelsea, Versedaily.org, and The Marlboro Review. Gail served as Interim Chair of the Grad Film Division from spring, 1998 until fall, 2000. She initiated a yearlong digital documentary course at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in 1999. A recent essay "A Praise of Doubt," is included in the book Artistic Citizenship: A Public Voice for the Arts.(Routledge,2006) She is currently working on a collection of essays: Behind the Scenes: Essays in the Construction of Cinema Style and developing a feature film project set in Southwest, Georgia.
