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Surface Dive (2001) film still
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Joanna Priestley: Surface Dive
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Email Joanna Priestley at joanna@primopix.com
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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).
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THIS PROJECT'S CATEGORIES: Film / Video > Film / Video | Northwest / Great Plains | 2000
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Seven Creative Capital artists receives 2007 Guggenheim Fellowships Eight Creative Capital artists were awarded 2008 Tribeca Film Institute Media Fellowships
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