Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc.
In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a career in festival programming, occupying a distinguished position on the curatorial vanguard through her pioneering development of immersive cinematic environments. As the Festival Director of the MIX Festival in New York (1992-1996) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MEXICO film festivals. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001), she founded the Platinum section which introduced cinematic performance installation and performance to the festival. She is presently in her 22nd year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the curator and driving creative force behind New Frontier, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
Collective consciousness and being on the cusp of the new year
Shifts within communities
Finding confluence within multiple subjects
Art and science working together
Visualization
Shari’s love of culture, and her work within curation and art
Wave-particle dualities
Measuring the concept of love within our life
The differences in seeing something versus feeling something
Neuroplasticity
Perceiving reality
Storytelling
Sundance Festival and New Frontier 2021, and the innovations that are taking place
Subjective and objective truths
Empathy
The lost art of listening
Shari’s experiences with filmmaking and changing the framework of the industry itself
The complications within creating and presenting Sundance’s 2021 festival
Focusing on humanity
Pushing into the new year with aspirations of inclusivity and connectedness
Finding clarity within your vision
New Frontier’s Website
sundance.org/programs/new-frontier
Sundance Film Festival’s Website
festival.sundance.org
Artist Decoded Patreon:
patreon.com/artistdecoded
Originally Posted 1.7.2021
Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc.
In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a career in festival programming, occupying a distinguished position on the curatorial vanguard through her pioneering development of immersive cinematic environments. As the Festival Director of the MIX Festival in New York (1992-1996) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MEXICO film festivals. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001), she founded the Platinum section which introduced cinematic performance installation and performance to the festival. She is presently in her 22nd year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the curator and driving creative force behind New Frontier, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
Collective consciousness and being on the cusp of the new year
Shifts within communities
Finding confluence within multiple subjects
Art and science working together
Visualization
Shari’s love of culture, and her work within curation and art
Wave-particle dualities
Measuring the concept of love within our life
The differences in seeing something versus feeling something
Neuroplasticity
Perceiving reality
Storytelling
Sundance Festival and New Frontier 2021, and the innovations that are taking place
Subjective and objective truths
Empathy
The lost art of listening
Shari’s experiences with filmmaking and changing the framework of the industry itself
The complications within creating and presenting Sundance’s 2021 festival
Focusing on humanity
Pushing into the new year with aspirations of inclusivity and connectedness
Finding clarity within your vision
New Frontier’s Website
sundance.org/programs/new-frontier
Sundance Film Festival’s Website
festival.sundance.org
Artist Decoded Patreon:
patreon.com/artistdecoded
Originally Posted 1.7.2021
