Alum Stephanie Calabrese Premieres Documentary Feature Film UNSPOKEN at 17th Annual Macon Film Festival

Lamar Dodd School of Art alum Stephanie Calabrese (BFA, 1991) has written and directed a documentary feature film, UNSPOKEN, which will premiere at the 17th Annual Macon Film Festival in Georgia on Saturday, August 20th at 10 am and Sunday, August 21st at 4 pm. UNSPOKEN traces the journey of Monroe resident Stephanie Calabrese, who picks up an iPhone camera to uncover buried truths and explore how the community has been impacted by its racial divide through the lens of her own whiteness. 

This is Stephanie Calabrese’s first documentary feature film. The film is also an official selection for the 2022 4th Annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival in September. 

Artist Bio
Stephanie Calabrese is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist She blends photography, video, writing and digital art to document and portray human stories and revealing moments. She is the author of the best-selling The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity published by Pixiq (a division of Sterling Press) and Ilex Press (now Octopus Press), and Lens on Life: Documenting Your World Through Photography published by Focal Press and Ilex Press (now Octopus). Calabrese is also a past TEDx Talk speaker on “Building a Better World, One Picture at a Time.” 

Stephanie’s photographic documentary series Hometown: A Documentary of Monroe, Georgia, a precursor to her first documentary feature film, UNSPOKEN, has been featured on The New York Times LENS site and on Atlanta CBS45 News. Her creative work has been featured in Time Lightbox, Forbes.com, LIFE.com, Digital Photo, Photo.net, Professional Photographer, and The Bitter Southerner.