Rachel Lears Managing Editor e-misférica

Rachel Lears is a writer, filmmaker, and musician based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MPhil in cultural anthropology from New York University and a BA in music from Yale University, and studied documentary production as part of NYU's Program in Culture and Media. In 2005, she received a Fulbright grant to produce the documentary Birds of Passage (currently in post-production) in Uruguay. In 2009, she will return to Uruguay with a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to complete a doctoral dissertation on the visual culture of popular music there. While her short documentaries have screened in film festivals across the United States, her video art piece Ethnography of No Place (2008), created with visual artist Saya Woolfalk, is currently screening in galleries, museums, and festivals throughout the New York area. She is the founder of Honeycomb Films and performs her original music with the band The Mystery Keys.