Talent Guide
Drew Swedberg
- Discipline:Director
- Program Year:Documentary Lab 2022
Bio
Drew Swedberg is a filmmaker, cinematographer, and educator based in Eastern Pennsylvania. Through a collaborative process and poetic approach, his filmmaking orbits around the everyday dreams, relationships, and forces that shape his home. Swedberg teaches an array of film classrooms from elementary to college, most recently as an Adjunct Professor in Lafayette College’s Film and Media Studies Department and LVAIC’s Documentary Storymaking Program. He has held fellowships with MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute and the Cultural Coalition of Allentown. He currently leads the programming for Allentown’s local arthouse cinema and is moving through post-production on his debut feature, in love, in memory.
Current Project
in love, in memoryLogline
In the wake of her son’s murder, Shalon Buskirk assembles intimate memories and intergenerational stories to reframe her loss within her city’s haunting legacy of displacement.