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 memory

Logline

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.