Claire Andrade-Watkins

The field of work recorded is African studies, film studies and documentary film. Employment is recorded with Emerson College. Works named in the authority record are Other People's Garbage. Work by Claire Andrade-Watkins is recorded in the collections of Harvard Film Archive.

• Name — Claire Andrade-Watkins • Birth Name — Claire Andrade-Watkins • Education — Simmons College Boston University • Years Active — 1990–present • Occupation — Historian, filmmaker, producer, writer, author, actress

She attended Lincoln School Providence, obtained her B.A. degree from Simmons College and later obtained M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University.

Andrade-Watkins is the founding Director of the 'Fox Point Cape Verdean' Project, a community-based research initiative created in 2007. She also holds the President of production and distribution company, 'SPIA Media Productions, Inc.'. It was founded in 1998 and specialized in media from the African Diaspora. She is the first academic tenure track professor of color in the college, and the first Full Professor of color in Visual and Media Arts before migrating to the Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies. She is also the author of several books including, Society for Visual Anthropology, Research in African Literature, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, American Historical Review, and CinémAction.

• Year — Film — Role — Genre — Ref. • 2005 — Cape Verde Independence — Director, producer — Documentary • 2006 — Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?: A Cape Verdean American Story — Director, executive producer, writer, editor — Documentary • 2011 — Hi, Neighbor — Director, producer, writer — Video documentary short • 2013 — Serenata de Amor — Director, producer — Documentary • 2016 — Working the Boats: Masters of the Craft — Director, producer — Documentary