Director
Jennifer Fox
Jennifer Fox, born 1959 in the USA, is an internationally renowned director, producer, camerawoman and lecturer. Her first film "Beirut: The Last Home Movie" was broadcast in twenty countries, shown in cinemas in nine countries and won seven international awards, including Best Documentary and Best Camera 1988 at the Sundance Film Festival and Best Documentary 1988 at the Cinema Du Reel Festival Paris. She produced, directed and photographed the groundbreaking ten-hour PBS/BBC/arte series "An American Love Story", which was screened in its full ten-hour form at festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlinale in 1999.
"An American Love Story" was aired nationwide on PBS Primetime. The series received a Gracie Award for Best TV Series and was named "One of the Top Ten TV Series of 1999" by The New York Times, Time Out, The Boston Globe, Time Magazine, and The New York Daily News.
She co-produced and filmed the six-part film "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman", financed by the Danish Film Institute, TV-2 Denmark, BBC, arte, YLE-1, SBS, SVT, ICON & Humanist Channels Netherlands, Sundance Channel and Creative Capital. "Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman" premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) 2006 and the Sundance Film Festival 2007 and toured cinemas in 20 North American cities before being broadcast on BBC, SVT, TV-2, YLE, SBS, and Sundance Channel in 2008.
Jennifer Fox produced many award-winning films among them: "Love and Diane"; "On the Ropes"; "Double Exposure"; "Cowboys, Indians, and Lawyers"; "Absolutely Safe", the ten-part television series "Project Ten: Real Stories from a Free South Africa" and the feature film "Upstate".
She has been involved in numerous documentary film projects, including the Sundance award winner "Southern Comfort" and the Slamdance winner of the main award "Stone Reader".
Jennifer Fox wrote the screenplay for the documentary "Lila: A Fairytale" and for the short film "The Woman with One Breast" together with Owen Moverman. Together with co-writer Deborah Copaken Kogan she developed the script for the TV pilot "The Good Egg". She is currently working on a screenplay for the feature film "The Tale".
Three films about filmmaking deal with Jennifer Fox as a documentary filmmaker: "The Heck with Hollywood!", "Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment" and "Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary".
Jennifer Fox has led documentary film training programs around the world and lectures on filmmaking nationally and internationally. She made her current documentary film "My Reincarnation" over a period of 20 years.