Project Director & Producer/Writer, B.J. Gudmundsson is a native of Pocahontas County. She attended West Virginia University, and was Station Manager of WVMR community radio in Frost, WV beginning in 1980. Her work in independent production began with videos for community organizations producing the United Way of Greenbrier Valley in 1998.
Gudmundsson now dedicates her time to preserving West Virginia history through film beginning with the video production of the Monroe Co. Bicentennial play, Women of Monroe. Her production of Out of the Storm, which she also wrote and directed, was awarded "Best Event Documentary, 2002" at the West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival in Sutton. She continues as that Project's Director giving public presentations and promoting the film. The film was shown twice at the Harvard Forest Museum.
She co-wrote the one-man play, An Evening with Cal Price, which was filmed and produced into a film as an introduction to the subject of Patchwork's next feature documentary, -30- Cal Price and The Pocahontas Times. The 100-minute film premiered in Pocahontas County on January 8, 2005 and in Lewisburg Jan. 20, 2005.
She is Project Director of the Lewisburg Living History Exhibit and created, with author Joan Browning, a Shepherd's Center profile on the African American leader, Reverend Carl Renick, 2004 recipient of the Distinguished West Virginian Award. She made a second film with Ms. Browing about Rev. Patricia Jarvis, "Standing on Holy Ground." She is also preparing to make a feature documentary about the Green Bank Radio Telescope and the National Youth Science Camp. The 50th anniversary of the NRAO will take place in 2007. Gudmundsson lives with her family in Lewisburg, WV.
As a board member of the West Virginia Filmmakers Guild, she has been showing other WV films at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg for more than a year. She has regularly attended WVFG meetings in Charleston and Sutton.