About
Dawnee Dodson spent her childhood in Colorado, and her life changed forever when her dad bought her a beat up 35mm Minolta at the town pawn 
shop. It wasn’t long before Dawnee had a portfolio in hand and a scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
She earned her BFA in Film, and liked school so much she got an MFA in Film at the University of Utah. Having maxed out on her formal film education, Dawnee began her informal training at The Walt Disney Company, Dimension Films, and Warner Bros. After a stint in Hollywood, and a gig teaching film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dawnee headed west to her adoptive hometown of Seattle, WA where she reinvented herself as sweetie films.
FILMOGRAPHY*
- MOTHER AMERICA, documentary feature 2010
- THE DEFENDERS, documentary feature 2006
- WIDE AWAKE and DREAMING, experimental short 2003
- AMERICAN STILL LIFE, experimental short 2001
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, documentary feature 1996
AWARDS
- Best 16mm Film, 2003 Utah Short Film & Video Festival, WIDE AWAKE and DREAMING
- Documentary Prize, 1996 World Population Film & Video Festival, HAPPY BIRTHDAY