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Ron & Queenae Mulvihill
Ron Mulvihill and Queenae Mulvihill are multi-talented film/video makers and have a knack for bringing together talented individuals from around the world on international award-winning productions. Their feature film, Maangamizi – The Ancient One, continues to receive accolades after being selected as Tanzania’s official selection at the 74th Academy Awards. At Zanzibar’s International Film Festival, the film won Best Feature and Best Actress and won the 2004 Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Film.
Ron Mulvihill has been active as a filmmaker, producer/director and editor for a variety of feature and documentary subjects since receiving his MFA in Theater Arts from UCLA in 1989 and his BA from UC Irvine in 1980.
As a result of his first visit to the African continent in 1979, his work has reflected the extraordinary cultural and spiritual beauty of African civilization and its influences throughout the world. The premiere of The Marriage of Mariamu, the first Tanzanian-American co-production, at Africa’s leading film festival – FESPACO – in 1985 garnered the Best Short Film Award, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Award and the Journalists and Critics Award. The 36-minute film was subsequently shown at the Fourth International Youth Film Festival in Turin, the Uppsala Film Festival in Sweden, and the Carthage International Film Festival in Tunisia.
Ron has also produced three documentaries, We Are Still Here, Sharing Is Unity, and Prince Dixon’s Gospel Caravan, which continue to prove significant nearly twenty years later.
Queenae Taylor Mulvihill, CEO of Gris-Gris Films, is an award-winning producer, screenwriter, film director and author. With a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA Film School, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from UC Berkeley, she maintains a commitment to creating art in all of her endeavors no matter the genre – film, video or the written word.
A mother of five, and grandmother to five, she has been married to award-winning producer, and director Ron Mulvihill for over 35 years, together they have formed a creative alliance in their commitment to storytelling via film and video.
With her primary passion as a writer, she has penned numerous screenplays, and both fiction and non-fiction literary works. She views her writings as more than an amalgamated construct of words, for it is a meditative and healing process that has been a source of inspiration and insight throughout her life. Although a California native, her African American and Native American roots are based in Louisiana and Mississippi, a life-long cultural backdrop that has allowed her to navigate “both worlds”-the seen and unseen- in cultivating themes of spiritual and cultural identities and qualities which tend to be foundational aspects reflected in her work. In whatever genre she pursues, ‘the spirits are never far’.
Ron Mulvihill has been active as a filmmaker, producer/director and editor for a variety of feature and documentary subjects since receiving his MFA in Theater Arts from UCLA in 1989 and his BA from UC Irvine in 1980.
As a result of his first visit to the African continent in 1979, his work has reflected the extraordinary cultural and spiritual beauty of African civilization and its influences throughout the world. The premiere of The Marriage of Mariamu, the first Tanzanian-American co-production, at Africa’s leading film festival – FESPACO – in 1985 garnered the Best Short Film Award, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Award and the Journalists and Critics Award. The 36-minute film was subsequently shown at the Fourth International Youth Film Festival in Turin, the Uppsala Film Festival in Sweden, and the Carthage International Film Festival in Tunisia.
Ron has also produced three documentaries, We Are Still Here, Sharing Is Unity, and Prince Dixon’s Gospel Caravan, which continue to prove significant nearly twenty years later.
Queenae Taylor Mulvihill, CEO of Gris-Gris Films, is an award-winning producer, screenwriter, film director and author. With a Master of Fine Arts degree from UCLA Film School, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from UC Berkeley, she maintains a commitment to creating art in all of her endeavors no matter the genre – film, video or the written word.
A mother of five, and grandmother to five, she has been married to award-winning producer, and director Ron Mulvihill for over 35 years, together they have formed a creative alliance in their commitment to storytelling via film and video.
With her primary passion as a writer, she has penned numerous screenplays, and both fiction and non-fiction literary works. She views her writings as more than an amalgamated construct of words, for it is a meditative and healing process that has been a source of inspiration and insight throughout her life. Although a California native, her African American and Native American roots are based in Louisiana and Mississippi, a life-long cultural backdrop that has allowed her to navigate “both worlds”-the seen and unseen- in cultivating themes of spiritual and cultural identities and qualities which tend to be foundational aspects reflected in her work. In whatever genre she pursues, ‘the spirits are never far’.
