Ren Dillon
Director Strategic Communications, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
PRONOUNS she/her
- 2004 - MFA, Film Writing Directing and Producing, Columbia University
- 1990 - BFA, Photography and Film, School of Visual Arts
BIO
Ren Dillon is a filmmaker, writer, and educator who relocated from Abu Dhabi in the UAE to Montpelier, Vermont in 2016. She received her BFA in 1990, from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Film Directing, Writing, and Producing from Columbia University in 2005. She has worked in the film industry in Los Angeles and New York City. Her screenplay, Birds With Teeth, a comedy about 19th-century paleontology, won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award. Her films have been screened nationally and internationally at film festivals. She was the founding Editor of Blue Sky, Green Earth Magazine. Her other passions include fiction writing, scuba diving, knitting, yoga, sustainable living and farming. Filmmaking allows her to dig deeply into a constant stream of new projects, subjects, and ideas. She taught at Columbia University, Kansas City Art Institute, The Ross School, Gibbs College, NYFA at Princeton, Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE, and Norwich University. She was Chair of Video Production at the Art Institute of New York City. Her former students and the work they have gone on to create are some of the achievements of which she is most proud.
Awards and Achievements
Sloan Foundation Award,
Area(s) of expertise
Filmmaking, Photography, Writing, Editing,
Bio
Ren Dillon is a filmmaker, writer, and educator who relocated from Abu Dhabi in the UAE to Montpelier, Vermont in 2016. She received her BFA in 1990, from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA in Film Directing, Writing, and Producing from Columbia University in 2005. She has worked in the film industry in Los Angeles and New York City. Her screenplay, Birds With Teeth, a comedy about 19th-century paleontology, won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award. Her films have been screened nationally and internationally at film festivals. She was the founding Editor of Blue Sky, Green Earth Magazine. Her other passions include fiction writing, scuba diving, knitting, yoga, sustainable living and farming. Filmmaking allows her to dig deeply into a constant stream of new projects, subjects, and ideas. She taught at Columbia University, Kansas City Art Institute, The Ross School, Gibbs College, NYFA at Princeton, Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE, and Norwich University. She was Chair of Video Production at the Art Institute of New York City. Her former students and the work they have gone on to create are some of the achievements of which she is most proud.
Awards and Achievements
Sloan Foundation Award,
Areas of Expertise
Filmmaking, Photography, Writing, Editing,