Joanna Priestley
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Portland Oregon USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
| Affiliation: Priestley Motion Pictures | |
| web: http://www.primopix.com | |
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Bio:
Joanna Priestley has produced and directed 17 films which have won awards in film festivals all over the world, including the National Educational Film Festival (First Prize), National Independent Film and Video Festival (Grand Prix), Big Muddy Film Festival (Best of Festival), Canadian International Animation Festival (Special Merit Award), Athens Film and Video Festival (First Prize) and the Cindy Competition (Gold Award). She has received three Individual Artist's Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, five fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (Elodie Osborn Fellow) and fellowships from the American Film Institute, the Djerassi Foundation (Rothenberg Award) and the Fundación Valparaíso in Spain. Retrospectives of her work have been shown on PBS (USA) and BBC (Great Britain) and at the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), Stuttgart International Animation Festival (Stuttgart, Germany), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) and High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA). Ms. Priestley studied painting and printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design and at UC Berkeley, where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors. Ms. Priestley also attended California Institute of the Arts where she received an MFA Degree and the Louis B. Mayer Award. Her background includes Coordinator of the Northwest Film and Video Festival, Director of Strictly Cinema, Editor of "The Animator", Regional Coordinator of the Northwest Film Center, Co-Director and Co-Founder of FILMA: Women's Film Forum and founding President of ASIFA Northwest. Ms. Priestley’s company, Priestley Motion Pictures has had an apprenticeship program since 1986. She teaches animation production at the Art Institute of Portland and has taught cinema history and animation production at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Northwest Film Center/Portland Art Museum and Volda College (Norway). Ms. Priestley also enjoys medicinal herbalism, gardening and Burning Man. She is an ardent proponent of animation as an art form and has presented papers at the Society for Animation Studies Conference and works to improve the status of animation in academia, museums, galleries and the media worldwide. Her films are distributed by the Museum of Modern Art (212-708-9532) and Canyon Cinema (415)626-2255). Filmography/Awards Info: The Rubber Stamp Film (1983) The Dancing Bulrushes (1985) Co-directed with Steven Subotnick. Voices (1985) Jade Leaf (1985) Times Square (1986) Co-directed with Jules Engel. Music Video Segments: Sequence director/animator for Blashfield and Assoc. "Good Friends" (Joni Mitchell, 1985, color xerox animation) "Sowing the Seeds of Love" (Tears for Fears, 1988, color xerox animation) Candyjam (1988) Co-directed with Joan Gratz. She-Bop (1988) All My Relations (1990) After the Fall (1991) Pro and Con (1993) Co-directed with Joan Gratz. Grown Up (1993) Hand Held (1995) Television Series Title: "Making Peace" (1996) Utopia Parkway (1997) Kali Yuga (2000) Surface Dive (2001) Andaluz (2004) Co-directed with Karen Aqua Dew Line (2005) This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. This database is used for commercial as well as informational, non-commercial purposes. It is a historical archive of Microcinema International's activities. Inclusion in this database and archive in no way implies a continuing formal relationship or affiliation with Microcinema International or the Blackchair Label nor an endorsement of its activities by the Contact. Contact details are not displayed in order to protect privacy. If you wish to contact this artist please see their website as listed above or write Microcinema International and we will be happy to forward your e-mail.
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