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"Certainly I have felt many times that I\u2019m hovering over an abyss. But you have to make that leap over to \xa0get to the other side."

Kathy Brew, 64, is a self-defined, label-defying \u201chybrid:\u201d a documentary filmmaker, public television producer, curator, teacher, and artful dreamer. After college, she stumbled on\xa0her first\xa0job making\xa0educational filmstrips\xa0\xa0\u2013remember those dreaded \u201chygiene\u201d films in seventh grade? \xa0Then\xa0in the\xa0early\xa080s,\xa0she\xa0left New York for California with her first husband\xa0and began her\xa0work in media and the arts\xa0in San Francisco.\xa0When she got an unsolicited grant of $5,000 she made her first award-winning film, \u201cMixed Messages,\u201d about girls and proscribed gender roles, the first of many of her arts and social issue documentaries. \u201cDesign Is One,\u201d about the renowned designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli, is one of the more recent that Kathy made\xa0back in NYC\xa0with the \u201clove of her life,\u201d documentary filmmaker Roberto Guerra .\xa0 Kathy\xa0envisioned\xa0 finding\xa0a partner\xa0who would be her \u201cbest friend, lover and collaborator.\u201d And she found that in her 17-year relationship with Roberto. Still in the deep sorrow of losing Roberto in 2014, Kathy also dreams and feeds her undaunted creative spirit. She\u2019ll soon be traveling to Peru as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching and making art, and continuing to unfurl her \u201cout-of-the-box,\u201d full and free life.

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