Nelle Stokes is a documentary videographer, teaching artist, and Executive Director of Magic Box Productions, Inc.  Ms. Stokes worked as a Senate-side reporter for Florida Public Television's award-winning series Today in the Legislature.  As a film reviewer for the Program for Art on Film at the Metropolitan Museum, she contributed to the book Architecture on Screen.

As a teaching artist, Ms. Stokes has worked in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey for over ten years.   Magic Box Productions, Inc. and its production wing, Magic Box Studios LLC, have created videos for nonprofit clients including the School Arts Rescue Initiative, Lexington Center for the Deaf, New Visions for Public Schools, and the Roundabout Theatre Company. Magic Box has helped thousands of NYC students and teachers to create and share their own original videos through arts residencies throughout the tri-state area.  Ms. Stokes has been selected as a Teaching Fellow for New York State Council on the Arts' ESP Summer Seminar in 2002-2009, and has presented and facilitated at the Common Ground conference since 2003.  MBP has received support from such funders as New York State Council on the Arts, the Center for Arts Education, Partners for Arts Education, and the Women’s Economic Development Corporation.

Educational videos produced and directed by Ms. Stokes have received national distribution and become established features of school curriculum. A Decade of Progress, the story of arts education in NYC from 1996-2006 received a Telly award, and was nominated for an Ovation Award from Ovation TV. Roundabout: The Art of Learning was honored with a Bronze Telly award. S.A.R.I.:  Telling the Story was commissioned by the New York Times Foundation and received awards from the Telly and Accolade Video competitions. Through the Eyes of Children: 9/11 and Beyond, was screened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Brooklyn International Film and Video Festival. She produced the independent low-budget comedy, CRIMINALS, which toured festivals including Avignon/NY, the IFFM, and the New York Independent Film Festival.  The making of CRIMINALS was featured in the book Persistence of Vision.

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