1. Jennie Livingston was born on February 24,1962 and is an American director best known for the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning.
16 Facts About Jennie Livingston
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Jennie Livingston is the youngest of three siblings, with two older brothers.
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Jennie Livingston's mother was the poet, children's book author and anthologist Myra Cohn Livingston.
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Jennie Livingston's father Richard Livingston was an accountant and author of the children's book The Hunkendunkens.
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Jennie 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.
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Jennie Livingston took a summer filmmaking class at New York University in 1984.
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Jennie Livingston moved to New York City in 1985, and was an activist with the AIDS activist group ACT UP.
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Jennie Livingston is an out lesbian and lives in Brooklyn.
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Jennie 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.
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Jennie Livingston worked in the art department on the 1987 film Orphans; director Alan J Pakula, her uncle, encouraged her to make her first film.
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In 2011, Jennie Livingston set up a Kickstarter campaign to support her film project Earth Camp One.
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Jennie Livingston first started working on the project in 2000, wanting to explore the topics of loss and grief after having lost her father, mother, grandfather, uncle, and brother between 1990 and 2000.
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Jennie Livingston has been developing, an ensemble episodic project set in the art worlds of New York and East Berlin in the late 1980s.
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In 2011, Jennie Livingston directed a video for Elton John's show The Million Dollar Piano at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas; the piece is a series of black and white moving-image portraits of a variety of New Yorkers that accompanies the song "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters".
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Jennie Livingston has taught and lectured worldwide, including teaching courses at Yale, Brooklyn College, and Connecticut College.
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Since 2018, Jennie Livingston has been a consulting producer on the FX tv drama series Pose, which is "heavily inspired" by her documentary Paris Is Burning.