Chet Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker, video, new media, and sound artist. He has exhibited at national and international venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA,) Royal Ontario Museum, Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia, Mexican Film Institute, and Shanghai Conservatory – Shanghai PRC. Pancake’s narrative and experimental documentary work has been screened at over 150 venues nationally and internationally, as well as broadcast (entirely or as excerpts) in the US and UK on the Sundance Channel, PBS, FreeSpeech Television, and the CommunityChannelUK. His films are nationally & internationally distributed by Frameline, Bullfrog Films, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Mostra Films Dones Barcelona Spain, and are held in permanent collections in over 75 university and museum archives nationally and internationally with a recent acquisition by Archive BORA in South Korea. Recent festival awards include "Best Picture" from QFest Houston, and "Boundary Breaker Award" at the Buffalo International Film Festival. Pancake is Interim Chair and Assistant Professor in the Film and Media Arts Program at Temple University. He received his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 winning the MFA Studio Art’s highest honor, the Edes Fellowship. Pancake was a recent Leeway Transformation Award Winner.

Chet Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker and sound artist. Their work has been presented nationally and internationally in a wide variety of venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Prague and Big Screen Plaza, Herald Square NYC. Their awards include the Paul Robeson Independent Media Award, Jack Spadaro Documentary Award, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, the Silver Chris, and Edes Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their films have been broadcast in the U.S.A. and Great Britain (Sundance Channel, PBS, FreeSpeech TV, CommunityChannelUK) and are distributed by Bullfrog Films and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Sound art releases can be found on Ehse Records and Recorded in Baltimore. Pancake completed their MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012. Pancake's recent exhibition "Bloodland" at Vox Populi was selected as an International Critic's Pick by Artforum.