CDA Staff

Artistic Director/Center for Digital Art

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

1986 to Present:

• “Cowards” wins First Prize in the Experimental Category from the New England Film and Video Festival, Boston, MA., February 2002.
  
  
• Completed “Cowards” in December of 2001 - an experimental dual screen projection video which explores and tests the boundaries of conventional narrative storytelling. “Cowards” stars Thomas J. Ryan (Hal Hartley’s lead in the feature film “Henry Fool”) and Nicole Halmos. “Cowards” pre-screened at Hartford’s Real Art Ways and premiered at Boston’s Coolidge Theater November 12, 2001.
• Experimental work “The Runner” selected for inclusion in the competition of the 8th Biennial of Moving Images at the Center for Contemporary Images in Geneva, Switzerland, November, 1999.
  
  
• Invited to join the Library of Congress (Washington, DC) National Film Registry Tour for their final presentations at the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, Vermont (October 1998).
  
  
• Founder/Artistic Director of the Center for Digital Art (December, 1996), an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and creation of videoart and experimental work on an international level. CDA also provides educational resources and job training to the local New England community as the 21st Century approaches. CDA received a grant (February, 1999) from the Alliance for Lifelong Learning to promote Independent Studies for High School students. Teacher of Non-linear Digital Editing.
  
  
• Creator/Director/Editor of several independent experimental videos. Awarded an “Opportunity Grant” from the Vermont Arts Council in February of 1999. Work includes: “The Runner,” a nine-screen “moving painting” based on a short story by Vermont writer James Tabor, winner of the O’Henry Literary Award for Best Short Story (1982). In addition to its inclusion in the 8th Biennial of Moving Images at the Center for Contemporary Images in Geneva, “The Runner” was also selected for the Northampton Film Festival in 1996 and screened at the Stratton Arts Festival in 1994.
  
  
• Founder/President of MLM Studios , a video production company. Partial work includes “Marcel Moyse, Grand Old Man of the Flute,” a one-hour documentary and winner of “Honorable Mention” at the 11th Annual New England Film Festival; “The Brattleboro Music Center,” a one-hour documentary which, along with “Marcel Moyse,” aired on Vermont ETV, and “Heartwork, Art Emerging from Silence,” a documentary depicting the artistic expression of victims who suffered sexual and emotional abuse. In 1993, “Heartwork” won a Certificate of Appreciation from the EarthPeace Festival in Burlington, Vermont.
  
  
• Co-founder and Vice President of Domilin Films, Inc. an acquisition and development company. Domilin co-produced, with ABC and Lorimar, a two-hour television feature titled “Why Me”. “Why Me” premiered on ABC to high ratings and critical acclaim.
  
  
• Board of Advisors, Brattleboro Community Television (1998 -1999),VIV Festival, Brattleboro, Vermont (2000-2001), and The Latchis Project, Brattleboro, Vermont (2001).
  

1963 to 1986

• Sound Editor for various feature film directors, including Woody Allen, George Roy Hill, Brian diPalma, Jonathan Demme, Marshal Brickman, Peter Yates, Otto Preminger, Allan Pakula.
  
  
• Film Editor/Cameraman for Cappy Productions, Inc., a production company specializing in exclusive documentaries for the Olympics since the early 1980’s.
  Sound Editor for King Features, a division of Hearst Metrotone News.
  Sound Editor for television. Work includes: The Defenders, The Nurses, N.Y.P.D., Coronet Blue. Television specials include: Skokie, Martin Luther King, Charlie Chaplin.

Awards/Grants:

• 2001, Challenge Grant to CDA, Thompson Trust
• 2000, Grant to CDA from Crosby Foundation
• 2000, Grant to CDA from Dunham-Mason Foundation
• 1999, Grant to CDA from The Alliance for Lifelong Learning
• 1999, Artist Grant from the Vermont Arts Council
• 1997, Grant to CDA from the United States Web Project
• 1985, Golden Reel Award nomination for“Double Take”
• 1984, Golden Reel Award nomination for“Little Drummer Girl”
• 1983, Artist Grant from the Vermont Council on the Arts

Personal:

• Graduated from Marlboro College, summa cum lauda, 1963
• Masters degree Art Education, New York University, NY, 1968
• Co-founder/Vice President of Domilin Films, Inc., 1984
• Founder/President of MLM Studios, 1986
• Founder/Co-Director of the Center for Digital Art, 1996
• Married, one son

To see some of Michel's work, click here.

Linda Moyse is the Co-Founder and Manager of CDA where she collaborates with the Brattleboro Union High School Career Center in organizing and managing the day-to-day operations of CDA, including advertising, interviewing teachers and staff, contacting other organizations, fundraising, grant research and soliciting, etc.

She is also the Vice-President of MLM Studios, where she procures and manages client accounts, marketing videos all over the United States as well as to Europe, Japan, Singapore, India and other international countries.

From 1985 to 1987, Mrs. Moyse was the Tour Coordinator for Lyon Travel Agency in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she booked all independent arrangements for Elderhostel and The Experiment in International Living participants.

From 1979 to 1983, Linda Moyse established a women's retail clothing shop in Brattleboro, including the marketing and buying of New York fashions as well as managing finances and employees.

From 1975 to 1977, while raising her school child, Mrs. Moyse held a Secretary/Receptionist position with Burgess/Leith, Inc., (now Advest) stockbrokers in Brattleboro.

Linda Moyse received her undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts from Marlboro College and a secretarial certificate from Katherine Gibbs in New York City.  Together she and Michel make their home in West Brattleboro, where they are often host to their son's production company, Stage Fright Productions.