Erin Donovan

Military brat, suburban punk, art rat, city girl, office lady, entrepreneurial ghost, blog enthusiast.

Erin Donovan received her degree in Political Economics from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. In 2000 she co-founded and was a lead organizer of the Ladyfest arts festival. As project coordinator for Kill Rock Stars records, she put together retrospective albums for punk luminaries Essential Logic and the Delta 5.

She spent an alternately very cold and very hot year in New England cutting her teeth on documentary film at the Media Education Foundation before going back to the west coast to work with independent film producers as an investment researcher. In 2009 she co-produced documentary film-maker Andy Blubaugh's independent feature debut The Adults in the Room, which will screen in early 2010.

Erin is now the founder of A Million Movies a Minute, an independent documentary distributor specializing in short films whose inaugural release After the War: Life post-Yugoslavia featured 9 short documentaries from 5 award-winning, international film-makers including Jasmila Žbanić, winner of the Golden Bear award at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival. In the Fall of 2009 AMMAM will release a compilation of animated documentaries that cover a wide spectrum of subject matter and a feature-length documentary entitled Radical Act about the role women played in the 1990's NYC punk rock music scene.

She edits and hosts a weekly podcast for Steady Diet of Film and is a contributing writer for Greencine, LinkTV and go2 media.