Biography

Chet Hunter Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker, video, new media, and sound artist.  He has exhibited at national and international venues such as the Sundance Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA,) Royal Ontario Museum, Murray Art Museum Albury, Australia, Mexican Film Institute, selection BFI Flare, 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 & streamed on the Sundance Channel, PBS, PBS.org, AppleTV+, Roku, AllArts, MUBI, OVID.TV, Docuseek, and more. 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 was awarded as national Fellowship Finalist for the Fall 2025 Stowe Story Lab. Pancake is Chairperson and Associate 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 is a Leeway Transformation Award Winner.