Joanna Priestley

Joanna Priestley
Joanna Priestley in her studio in 2013, with the Movieola she used to edit her 16mm films
Born
Portland, Oregon, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationRhode Island School of Design
Alma materUniversity of California at Berkeley (BFA 1975), California Institute of the Arts (MFA 1985)
Known forFilmmaking, animation, teaching, Burning Man events
SpousePaul Harrod
Websitewww.joannapriestley.com

Joanna Priestley (born November 25, 1950[1]) is an American contemporary film director, producer, animator and teacher. Her films are in the collections of the Academy Film Archive[2] in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Priestley has had retrospectives at the British Film Institute,[3] Museum of Modern Art [4] and Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan.[5] Bill Plympton calls her the "Queen of independent animation". Priestley lives and works in Portland, Oregon.

  1. ^ Bendazzi, Giannalberto (2015-11-06). Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-317-51987-4.
  2. ^ "The Rubber Stamp Film - Academy Collections". oscars.org/.
  3. ^ "Joanna Priestley Retrospectives & Screenings Set for Stuttgart, BFI". Retrieved April 26, 2017.
  4. ^ "TJoanna Priestley". www.cccb.org/.
  5. ^ "International Jury". Retrieved August 21, 2014.