Jennie Livingston
Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1962 (age 64) · Dallas, Texas, USA
Jennie Livingston is a groundbreaking filmmaker, known for her lively storytelling, nuanced character portraits, and thoughtful explorations of identity, class, race, death, sex, and gender. She works in both fiction and nonfiction. Jennie's taught at Yale, Connecticut College, and Brooklyn College, lectured widely, written for national magazines, and appeared as a subject or speaker in a number of documentaries and cultural programs. Livingston has been a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the German Academic Exchange, the MacDowell Colony, The Newhouse Foundation, the Rosenthal Family Foundation, The Getty Center, and others.
Livingston was born in Texas, raised in Los Angeles, educated at Yale, and lives in New York City.
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 2024I'm Your Venus Executive Producer
- 2006Through the Ice Producer, Editor, Director
- 2005Who's the Top? Director, Editor, Writer
- 1993Hotheads Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Director
- 1991Paris Is Burning Producer, Director, Still Photographer
- TBAEarth Camp One Director, Producer
Acting2
- 2006Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
- 1998Lavender Limelight as Self