Andrea Sisson
Andrea Sisson | |
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.jpg) Sisson in January 2016 | |
| Alma mater | Bard College |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Spouse | Pete Ohs (as of 2013) |
Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.
Personal life[edit]
Andrea Sisson's hometown is Cleves, Ohio.[1] In[update] 2013, Sisson was married to fellow filmmaker Pete Ohs[2]—whom she met at a suburban Cincinnati water park—and living in Los Angeles.[3] In summer 2021, Sisson was pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.[4]
Career[edit]
After receiving a Fulbright fellowship, Sisson traveled to Iceland to direct and narrate her experimental[3] 70-minute documentary film about mental illness, I Send You This Place.[2] The work was a 2012 official selection at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Reykjavík International Film Festival, and was commercially released in summer 2013.[3]
In 2013, Sisson and Ohs were jointly named one of Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film".[3] That same year, they were working on Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, a "microbudget narrative project";[3] at the 2017 LA Film Festival, it won the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Brown, Sherrod (October 27, 2010). "Sen. Brown Congratulates 16 Fulbright Scholars from Southwest Ohio". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate. Archived from the original on December 16, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ a b Rapold, Nicolas (June 6, 2013). "Heady Times in Exotic Iceland". The New York Times. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on October 17, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e H., B. (2013). "Andrea Sisson & Pete Ohs". Filmmaker. ISSN 1063-8954. Archived from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
- ^ "Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) Presents Class of 2022 Thesis Exhibition, July 17–25, at Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook, NY". Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Bard College. July 13, 2021. Archived from the original on August 2, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
- ^ "2017 LA Film Festival Announces Winners". Los Angeles: Film Independent. June 22, 2017. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
2017 LA Film Festival Announces Winners and Thanks Its Generous Sponsors
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