Holly Hey, Professor of Film
Holly Hey is currently a professor of film and video production within the Department of Theatre and Film at The University of Toledo. Professor Hey holds a MFA in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in photography from Ohio University. Her work has screened at professionally recognized festivals including The Aesthetica Short Film Festival – York, UK, the Ann Arbor Film Festival –Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Athens International Film and Video Festival – Athens, Ohio, the Mix Festival -New York, the Onion City Film Festival -Chicago, the Denver International Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film and Video Festival, among other national and international venues.
In addition, Professor Hey has also had her short documentaries Sister Eileen and Her Boyz, Reentry Realities, and Rat Stories distributed through The National Educational Television Association (NETA), http://www.netaonline.org/education.htm. NETA distributes content for PBS licensees and educational entities in all 50 states,
the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Professor Hey is an "undependent" filmmaker and an experimental weaver of media who strives to provoke active relationships between her cinematic art and the diverse audiences that it reaches. Her work, influenced by post-modern and queer theory, experimental, personal, structural, and feminist film, employs a wide range of practice including: single-channel work that is screened within film festivals, micro-cinemas and on public broadcast stations, mixed-media and installation art that is shown in galleries, and live performance and multi-media integration within performance art and the performing arts of theatre and music. Each practice is a unique opportunity to intersect or to undermine conventional methods for telling stories via the moving image.
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Professor Hey's film Sister Eileen and Her Boyz (to be released fall 2023) is the first segment in a series of short documentaries known as HIV in the Rust Belt. This project, funded by UToledo Office of Research, the Ohio Humanities Council, and the Anne Wayson Locher Memorial Fund, focuses on Sister Eileen Schieber and her HIV/AIDS ministry during the early years of the epidemic at David's House Compassion, LLC., a grassroots care facility that she helped to launch.