Born in Brooklyn in 1947, Barbara Jabaily grew up in Pennsylvania’s Erie County where her parents operated Lake City’s only restaurant, the Whistle Stop. The day after high school graduation, she moved back to Brooklyn where she lived for a while with a cardshark aunt and worked as a secretary before enrolling at the School of Visual Arts in photography in the late 1960s. While still an SVA student, she became interested in filmmaking, came out, and began to work with Lesbians Organized for Video Experience (L.O.V.E.) as well as Women’s Interart Center’s film production education program. At Interart, she made four 16mm films.  In 1979, she moved to Colorado’s Boulder/Denver area where she produced women’s music concerts for all-women audiences as well as a music video show at the upstart tv station, KBDI’s Channel 12 and made several lgbtq documentaries and live discussion programs.  In 2001 she moved to Pueblo, Colorado, she worked on lbgtq, women’s rights, and climate issues. In addition to the pieces archived with LHMP, Barbara’s work also appears on her youtube channel DreamTellerVideo and MediaBurn’s Vimeo stream. Her collection at LHMP includes her early16mm films as well as videos shot on Portapac, VHS, and hi 8.