filmmaker's bio

Adele Horne is an independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her feature-length documentary
The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on the PBS program POV and won Film Independent's "Axium Truer than Fiction Award" in the 2007 Spirit Awards.

Horne's film and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, the Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, Film Arts Foundation, PDX Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Mix Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, and Mad Cat Women's Film and Video Festival, among other venues.

Horne was born in Nova Scotia and grew up in Houston. She received an M.F.A. in film and video from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from Williams College. She currently teaches film and documentary production at California Institute of the Arts.

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