Episode 18: Gordon Skinner, Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

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Gordon T. Skinner, filmmaker, mediator, performer and producer

Gordon T. Skinner is the founder & executive producer of [Re]-Frame Media a full service production house and an M/WBE certified content provider to State and Local municipalities. [Re]-Frame’s activities include: diversity sensitivity training; gender-equity & inclusion; dispute mediation, crisis intervention, and conflict resolution. Skinner has worked with several United Nations non-governmental organizations: A Workplace/A World of Difference Program for the Anti-Defamation League; Seeds of Peace (Israel/Palestine); the Andreas Papandreou Foundation & the Youth Peace Initiative (Greece). He was the Director of Educational Outreach for Columbia University’s Middle East Institute.

As Filmmaker and Director, Skinner has twenty years experience producing social justice documentaries. Formerly a Lincoln Center Institute artist-in-residence fellow, he has held residencies with: Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access Program and IFP Project Involve. His films include: Blood Money; Save Out Seaport; Cornelia Street Café; The Kunas; Sitting in the Fire; Strategic Omissions; and Lost Innocents. Other past projects: Echoing Green Purpose 360º; Border Crossers' interstitials highlighting training educators to address institutionalized racism in their classrooms; Dance for pole, a stereoscopic alternative dance, filmed & screened at MoMA/PS 1; Evolution of a Revolution, inside the Occupy Wall Street movement. Skinner documented intimate talks among small audiences with His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Summer of 2020 Skinner was commissioned by the SoHo Broadway Initiative & The Westwood Gallery of Art to document protest mural painting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Commercial credits: the Westin Hotel, Jersey City/Starwood; Latin-American Culture Week/teleSUR; Olatunji: Drums of Passion/Symphony Space. Producing credits: MTV, NHK, ESPN and Sony Music. Skinner commemorated Bach’s 330th birthday by filming Bach In The Subways that included a 200-person flash-mob in New York’s Grand Central Station. Skinner is currently in production with a feature-length documentary film, Aging Creatively: Changing Expectations!.

A native New Yorker, he resides in Brooklyn.