1. Lauren Greenfield was born on Jun 28,1966 and is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker.
20 Facts About Lauren Greenfield
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Lauren Greenfield has published photographic monographs, directed documentary features and series, produced traveling exhibitions, and published in magazines throughout the world.
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Lauren Greenfield was born on June 28,1966, in Boston, Massachusetts, to psychologist Patricia Marks Greenfield and physician Sheldon Greenfield.
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Lauren Greenfield has a younger brother, film producer Matthew Greenfield.
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Five years after the release of "Fast Forward", Lauren Greenfield produced a second major body of work about the self-esteem crisis amongst American women, entitled "Girl Culture".
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From September 1985 to May 1986, while still an undergraduate at Harvard, Lauren Greenfield traveled around the world on a nine-month-long program created by the International Honors Program, entitled "Film Study and Anthropology".
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Lauren Greenfield subsequently directed THIN, a feature-length documentary for HBO, and published an accompanying book with the same title.
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In September 2006, Lauren Greenfield received the prestigious Grierson Award for best documentary shown at the BFI London Film Festival.
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Lauren Greenfield received a 2007 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming for her work on THIN.
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In January 2012 Lauren Greenfield received the Sundance Film Festival's Directing Award, US Documentary 2012 for her documentary feature film, entitled The Queen of Versailles, which was released theatrically in 2012.
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In January 2013, Lauren Greenfield was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for the year 2012.
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In March 2014, Lauren Greenfield won a lawsuit brought by the film's main subject David Siegel.
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Siegel claimed Lauren Greenfield had not obtained a proper release from the subjects of the film, in particular David Siegel and Westgate Resorts.
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In January 2015, Lauren Greenfield was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for the year 2014.
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Lauren Greenfield received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay at the 71st Writers Guild of America Awards for the film.
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The Kingmaker is a 2019 documentary film written and directed by Lauren Greenfield, featuring the political career of Imelda Marcos with a focus on the Marcos family's efforts to rehabilitate the family's image and to return to political power, including her plans to see her son Bongbong become President of the Philippines, and the alliance that Bongbong and Imee Marcos established with Rodrigo Duterte in his bid to win the 2016 Philippine presidential election.
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Lauren Greenfield created and directed Social Studies for FX, a 2024 documentary series following high school students over the course of a school year in Los Angeles, exploring the lives of a generation growing up online.
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Alongside her books, Fast Forward, Girl Culture, "THIN", and "Generation Wealth" Lauren Greenfield produced four large-scale traveling exhibitions with the same names, which have been seen in museums and cultural institutions around the world.
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In May 2011, Lauren Greenfield received the honor of being the only photographer to be chosen twice as a Featured Artist at The Annenberg Space for Photography, as part of its exhibition, "Beauty CULTure", as one of only four Featured Photographers.
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Lauren Greenfield was commissioned by The Annenberg Space for Photography to direct a 30-minute documentary film about the subject of the exhibition.