Salome Chasnoff

Salome Chasnoff is a filmmaker and installation artist who is inspired by the enlightening, humanizing, and healing capacities of storytelling. She has collaborated on films with people with disabilities, queer and trans youth, older sex workers, rural health workers, and women in prison. Her awards include Purpose Prize Fellowship, Ida B. Wells Bravery in Journalism, 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, and Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. She is a Senior Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Beyondmedia was a pioneering Chicago organization at the forefront of democratizing mediamaking in the 1990s-2000s, guiding marginalized people to make videos in their own voices and inject them into public discourse to influence issues affecting their lives. Weaving archival footage with new interviews, Chasnoff’s documentary will focus on the transformative power of narrative agency, asking in a time of unprecedented connectivity and unprecedented social disintegration if storytelling can still heal.