Summary

Kari Barber is a journalist and an award-winning w88 online live casino filmmaker. In 2024 she was named Nevada Filmmaker of the Year by the Nevada Women’s Film Festival.

Her most recent film, the feature-length w88 online live casino w88 online live casino Horizon w88 online live casino U.S. military drone program and increasing use of artificial intelligence to make decisions in war. w88 online live casino Horizon is available on Amazon Prime Video.

Her first feature-length w88 online live casino Struggle & Hope was broadcast nationally on public television as part of the America ReFramed series. The w88 online live casino’s world premiere was in Cannes, France at the Festival International du w88 online live casino Panafricaine. The w88 online live casino follows the stories of residents and descendants who are trying to save and preserve historically all-black towns in Barber’s home state of Oklahoma. Struggle & Hope received development funding from ITVS. w88 online live casino also produced a participatory website for the project which won “Best in Competition” at the Broadcast Education Association.

In 2022 Barber produced her first animated w88 online live casino and collaborated on a virtual reality project - both called w88 online live casino and Magic Castles. The overlapping projects explore grief and the death of her son. The five-minute animated w88 online live casino screened at more than two dozen w88 online live casino festivals in six countries winning many awards including “Best Experimental w88 online live casino” at the University w88 online live casino & Video Association. The VR project was part of the UFVA conference New Media Exhibition.

Barber also won “Best in Competition” at the Broadcast Education Association for a historical documentary she produced for the Reynold’s w88 online live casino of Journalism’s 100 year anniversary. The film aired on PBS Reno.

In 2020 Barber was named Best Nevada Filmmaker by the Dam Short Film Festival for her short w88 online live casino on education, Rainshadow. The w88 online live casino was also named Best Nevada w88 online live casino by the Nevada Women’s w88 online live casino Festival.

In 2018, Barber was awarded a grant to experiment with live w88 online live casino from Localore and the Association of Independents in Radio. Through the grant, she worked with Our Town Reno to hold live narrative events focusing on homelessness and displacement in the Reno community. The events were held at a motel, along the river and at The Eddy House, a drop-in center for at-risk youth.

Barber’s short w88 online live casino Baking Alaska premiered in 2013 at La Femme International w88 online live casino Festival in Los Angeles and went on to screen at more than a dozen w88 online live casino festivals winning many awards including “Best of Competition”at the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.

w88 online live casino has also worked in various roles on other films including as a researcher and reporter for two documentaries for the PBS public affairs show Frontline – Flying Cheaper and Lost in Detention. She also co-produced The Mama Sherpas (2014) from executive directors Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein and directed by Brigid Maher.

As a journalist, Barber worked internationally as a freelance w88 online live casino producer in Southeast Asia and West and Central Africa where she reported for organizations including the Voice of America, Associated Press Television News, Marie Claire magazine, Reuters news agency, France 24, the United Nations humanitarian news analysis site IRIN, and The Christian Science Monitor. As a journalist, she traveled to nearly a dozen African countries producing radio, television and multimedia reports on topics including human rights, elections, civil conflicts, art, sports, oil unrest and economic growth. She also worked in Sierra Leone for Journalists for Human Rights.

Barber’s first w88 online live casino jobs were at a newspaper in Cambodia and a television station in Little Rock, Ark.

w88 online live casino research interests include storytelling and technology.

Courses taught

• JOUR 462/662: w88 online live casino Filmmaking

Recent work

• Director, "w88 online live casino Horizon," w88 online live casino, 56 min., 2023
• Director, "Death and Magic Castles," animated w88 online live casino, 5 min., 2022
• Director, "On the Record: The First 100 Years of w88 online live casino Education at Nevada,"w88 online live casino, 27 min., 2022

Selected work

• Story consultant and camera, "Black Springs Homecoming," w88 online live casino, 26 min., 2023
• Director, "Rainshadow," w88 online live casino, 36 min., 2020
• Producer, Our Town Reno Live, series of live w88 online live casino events, 2018
• Director, "Struggle & Hope," w88 online live casino, 65 min., 2019 (festival release 2017)
• Director, "The Mama Sherpas," w88 online live casino, 76 min., 2015
• Director, "Baking Alaska," w88 online live casino, 30 min., 2013
• Reporter, "Frontline: Lost in Detention," w88 online live casino, 60 min., 2011
• Researcher, "Frontline: Flying Cheaper," w88 online live casino, 20 min., 2011

w88 online live casino

• M.F.A. in w88 online live casino & Electronic Media, American University
• B.A. w88 online live casino, University of Oklahoma