Beth Tanenhaus Winsten

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Beth Tanenhaus Winsten is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, visual artist, and creator of the digital genre tinyBigPictureshows with channels on YouTube and Vimeo. Her work has been broadcast on the

PBS, ABC affiliates among others. The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Detroit Institute of Arts
have showcased her work.

Biography

Daughter of political scientist Joseph Tanenhaus and classics scholar Gussie Hecht Tanenhaus, her siblings are Michael Tanenhaus, Sam Tanenhaus, and David S. Tanenhaus.

After attending the

Emmy Award
for her thesis film Body & Soul.

Tanenhaus Winsten’s script Rock Garden won the 1999 National Festival of New Works Competition[1] which led to a rewrite under the supervision of Kurt Luedtke. Dan T. Green directed an Actors' Equity Association production of a staged reading of Rock Garden at the Trueblood Theater in 1999.

Before founding btwfilms in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2009 with associate, Mike Smith, she was a film critic and writer on popular culture at

The Metro Times in Detroit and contributed articles to The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press
.

Filmmaking awards: include 3

Emmy Awards; Blue Ribbon, 1st Place at American Film and Video Festival; 3 Golden ITVAS (International Television Awards of Excellence) and TELLYS. Screenwriting awards include: the Major Drama Avery Hopwood Award.[2]

Films

  • Body & Soul (1995)
  • The Journey of the Chandler/Pohrt Collection (1992)
  • It's Magic (1991)
  • KidSpace (1990)
  • Encore on Woodward: Detroit’s Fox Theater (1989)
  • The Perfect Metaphor for Poetry (2009)
  • A Perfect Funeral (2009)
  • Homage to David Lynch (2009)
  • Motown's Oldest Music School (2009)
  • Undertakings (2009)
  • BEC (2010)
  • Strawberry Jam (2010)
  • "Having a Wonderful Time" (2011)
  • "Future Based Agile Thinking (FBAT)" (2011)
  • "SPARK Series" (2011–12)

Screenplays

  • The Black Corset Affair (1995)
  • Rock Garden (1999)

Bibliography

  1. ^ "History of the Festival of New Works". Retrieved November 2, 2010.
  2. ^ "Previous Hopwood Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  • Farrow, Moira. "A Visit with Beth Winsten: Sharp Focus", The Ann Arbor News, Ann Arbor, 1 August 1995.