Jennie Livingston

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Full Name	Jennie Livingston
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Feb 24, 1962(1962-02-24)
Age	62
Birthplace	Dallas
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Jennie Livingston Biography

Jennie Livingston is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on February 24, 1962 in Dallas, United States. Jennie Livingston (born February 24, 1962) is an American director best known for the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning.

Initially released in 1991, the film continues to screen worldwide at festivals, universities, museums, and community groups, and attracts a multi- generational audience. In 2017, New York Times critic Wesley Morris included Paris is Burning in a piece for the Times’s pullout children’s section, “12 Films To See Before You Turn 13.” Said Morris, “Jennie Livingston spent years observing competing enclaves of drag queens. Seeing her documentary as soon as possible means you can spend the rest of your life having its sense of humanity amuse, surprise, and devastate you, over and over.”

Two of Livingston’s short films, Hotheads and Who’s the Top?, explore queer topics. Hotheads, a 1993 documentary created through the AIDS research- friendly Red Hot Organization, explores two comedians’ responses to violence against women: cartoonist Diane Dimassa, and writer/performer Reno. Hotheads was shown on MTV and KQED and released on Polygram Video as part of Red Hot’s No Alternative compilation.

Through the Ice is a digital short, commissioned in 2005 for public television station WNET-New York, about the accidental drowning of Miguel Flores in Prospect Park, Brooklyn and about the dog-walkers who tried to save him; the film was also seen at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Livingston’s father died of heart disease in 1990, her mother and her grandmother both died of cancer within months of each other in 1996. Two years later, her uncle Alan J. Pakula died in a car accident, and Livingston’s brother Jonas died suddenly in early 2000. The loss of her family and her experience of grief led her to start work on her film Earth Camp One.

Jennie Livingston Net Worth

Jennie Livingston is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jennie Livingston 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Livingston has also been developing Prenzlauer Berg, an ensemble episodic project set in the art worlds of New York and East Berlin in the late 1980s.

Livingston was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Los Angeles, where her family moved when she was two years old. She is the youngest of three siblings, with two older brothers. Livingston attended Beverly Hills High School and graduated from Yale University in 1983, where she studied photography, drawing, and painting with a minor in English Literature. One of her teachers at Yale was the photographer Tod Papageorge. Livingston took a summer filmmaking class at New York University in 1984. She is the niece of the late film director Alan J. Pakula and worked in the art department on his 1987 film Orphans; he encouraged her to make her first film. Her mother was the poet, children’s book author and anthologist Myra Cohn Livingston. Her father Richard Livingston was an accountant and author of the children’s book The Hunkendunkens. Her brother Jonas was a music executive at Geffen Records and at MCA Records, and directed the video for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians’ 1988 hit song What I Am. She has another brother called Joshua. Livingston moved to New York City in 1985, and was an activist with the AIDS activist group ACT UP. She is an out lesbian and lives in Brooklyn.

Livingston’s documentary about a New York gay and transgender Black and Latinx ball culture won the 1991 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and was a key film both in the emerging American independent film movement and in the nascent New Queer Cinema. Paris is Burning was one of Miramax Films’ earliest successes, and helped pave the way for a current crop of commercially successful documentary films. It was one of the best films of 1991 according to The Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and NPR; New York Magazine. In 2016, it was included in the Film Archive at the Library of Congress, along with 24 other films including The Birds, The Lion King, and East of Eden. When the film premiered, positive reviews by queer Black critics include Essex Hemphill, writing for The Guardian and Michelle Parkerson, writing for The Black Film Review. Favorable reviews appeared in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The Village Voice, Newsweek, and elsewhere. Critical reviews came, most notably, from essayist bell hooks and film critic B. Ruby Rich.

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The film has been a source of inspiration for filmmakers, television shows, LGBTQ communities, and queer activists. It’s taught at universities in film, dance, cultural studies, and in multiple other academic disciplines. For Stonewall 40, the New York activist group FIERCE! screened the film on the New York piers where much of the film was shot. In 2018, Pratt Institute’s Black Lives Matter student group kicked off their weekend of events with a screening of the film and discussion. The film inspired the creation of the FX show Pose, and its quotes and people and spirit infuse the show.

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Top Facts about Jennie Livingston

1. Jennie Livingston is an American filmmaker born in 1962.
2. She directed the acclaimed documentary “Paris Is Burning” (1990).
3. The film explores New York City’s drag ball culture of the 1980s.
4. “Paris Is Burning” won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
5. Livingston studied photography and art history at Yale University.
6. She has also worked as a producer and editor on various projects.
7. Livingston identifies as queer and has spoken about her own gender identity.
8. In addition to filmmaking, she has taught at various universities.
9. Livingston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.
10. Her work continues to inspire discussions about race, class, and gender in America today.

Why is Paris Is Burning called that?

In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. The title takes its name from the Paris Is Burning ball held annually by artist Paris Dupree who appears in the film.

Who from Paris Is Burning is still alive?

Now 63, LaBeija is one of just three surviving subjects of Paris Is Burning. (The other two are Freddie Pendavis, then a beaming young teen; and Sol Williams Pendavis, a former soldier who dons military dress at a ball in the film.) Tragically, most of the rest have succumbed to AIDS, violence or drug addiction.

What is the sequel to Paris Is Burning?

Kiki and Paris is Burning Movie critics such as Fionnuala Halligan, Glenn Kenny, Justin Chang, Rhienna Guedry, Tre’vell Anderson and Hans Pedersen regard Kiki as a sequel to Paris Is Burning because they both cover similar topics such as homelessness, HIV/AIDS, and violence against LGBT youth.

Who produced Paris Is Burning?

Producers

Do drag balls still exist?

Nineteen-sixties-style drag shows and competitions still exist , with their own audience. Ball patrons will find similar categories (such as “banjee thug realness” and “vogue”) as an audience member.