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Dina Fiasconaro , M.F.A.
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Dina Fiasconaro is a Baltimore-based filmmaker. Her feature documentary, Moms and Meds, is available on Amazon. Her short films have screened at a variety of festivals, including Portland Underground, BlackStar, and NYC International, and she is a recipient of the ‘Generation Next’ screenwriting grant. Dina was awarded a production grant from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University to direct the short film Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf. She has a MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University, and a BS in TV, Radio and Film from Syracuse University. Dina is co-founder of the Baltimore Chapter of Film Fatales (www.filmfatales.org), a national organization working towards gender parity in the film industry.
Education
M.F.A., Film Production: Directing; Columbia University
Professional Experience
Director; Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf, 2017, short film
Polaris & Hearts Called, 2016/2017 music videos for The Holy Circle
Moms and Meds, 2015, feature documentary
Pucky’s Pappagallo, 2015, short super8/video
Malocchio, 2013, short film
I See a Darkness, 2012, short film
True Love Waits, 2004, short 35mm film
Beyond The Pale, 2001, short 16mm film
Princess, 1998, short 16mm experimental film
2007 - 2010 Carbon Productions. In-house Assistant Editor & Cinematographer
2005 - 2007 Psychic Detectives documentary TV series, Court TV, Assistant Editor
2001 - 2005 Adoption and Rescue documentary TV series, Hallmark Entertainment, Post-Production Coordinator
2000 - 2001 Nocturnal Commercials and Films, Production Coordinator
Research
Women in Film
The Representation of Women in Martin Scorsese Films
Publications
2017 The Daily Record
2016 Cosmopolitan Magazine
Refinery 29
Bmore Art
2015 Baltimore Museum of Art
Broadly
Art with Impact
2014 No Film School
Fandor
Lost in the Movies
Baltimore City Paper
This Manic Mama (podcast)
Pregnancy and Medicine Initiative
2013 Invisible Camera
Baltimore Fishbowl
Bitch Magazine
Mutha Magazine
Indiewire
Peggy O’Mara
What Weekly Magazine
Do Not Faint
2012 Willamette Weekly
Highlights
AWARDS:
2017 - 2018
Stevenson University Research Development Grant: Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf short film
2016
Grant Recipient, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Grant for short film, Commercial for the Queen of Meatloaf
Writing Resident, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony (for feature screenplay, Days in the Wake)
2014 - 2015
Stevenson University Research Development Grant: Moms and Meds feature documentary film
2012 - 2013
Stevenson University Research Development Grant: "The Representation of Women in Martin Scorsese Films"
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