Britta Sjogren
| Britta Sjogren | |
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| 💼 Occupation | Independent Film director, Film Theorist |
Britta Sjogren is an independent filmmaker and academic.
Biography[edit]
Britta Sjogren was born in Portland, Oregon and attended University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned degrees in both film production and critical theory. Her films have received awards from a number of independent film circuits including Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Dallas International Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest and special showcases at Créteil International Women's Film Festival and the Locarno International Film Festival.
Sjogren is a recipient Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker grant and the Cinereach award for Best Screenplay Minority Protagonist, among other honors. She has programmed film series for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and the Créteil International Women's Film Festival. Furthermore, Sjogren continues her academic work as a Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. As the Director of Cinema Department at San Francisco State University, she launched a significant curricular initiative to spotlight the contributions of women in film and oversaw capital improvements, including the renovation of the renowned Coppola theater. [1] She co-founded the production company Dire Wolf in 2007. [2] As a filmmaker, her films are unorthodox narratives that center upon the subjective experience of women. Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions, Sjogren's modern Joan-of-Arc tale, screened at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. [3] Her 1996 work, A Small Domain, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival for Best Short Film and SXSW Competition Award at the SXSW Film Festival . [4] [5] Sjogren's latest film, Redemption Trail is a contemporary feminist Western set in Marin and Oakland. [6] Her film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival, winning the audience award. [7] Additionally, Sjogren is the author of Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film that focuses on female subjectivity, feminine voice and sound in film through the psychoanalytic, narratological and discursive contradictions of 1940s film. [8]
Filmography[edit]
| Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions (1992) |
| a Small Domain (1996) |
| In This Short Life (2005) |
| Redemption Trail (2013) |
Exhibition[edit]
In the Fall of 2021, Sjogren was featured in an exhibition at Stanislaus State, in which her filmography and career were highlighted. A catalogue accompanied the exhibit titled, "Britta Sjogren - The Gaze Returned". [9]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Britta Sjogren | School of Cinema".
- ↑ Sjogren, Britta (2021). "Britta Sjogren - The Gaze Returned". Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ "Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions". BAMPFA. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ↑ "A Small Domain, Sundance Archive". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
- ↑ "SXSW Film Festival - 1997 Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ↑ "Professor's latest film explores loss, survival". San Francisco State University. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
- ↑ "Avenging Angels Ride into Mill Valley". cineSOURCE. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ↑ Sjogren, Britta (2005). "Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film". Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ "The Art Galleries - Britta Sjogren". Stanislaus State. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
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