Jennie Livingston

Known for

Directing

Born

Feb 24, 1962

From

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.

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Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

20065.4out of 10

Lavender Limelight

19986.5out of 10

Hotheads

19930.0out of 10

Paris Is Burning

19918.0out of 10

Through the Ice

20069.0out of 10

Who's the Top?

20052.5out of 10

I'm Your Venus

20246.5out of 10

Earth Camp One

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POSE

20188.3out of 10