Andrea Sisson | |
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Alma mater | Bard College |
Occupation | Film director |
Spouse | Pete Ohs (as of 2013) |
Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.
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]
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]
2017 LA Film Festival Announces Winners and Thanks Its Generous Sponsors
Andrea Sisson | |
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Alma mater | Bard College |
Occupation | Film director |
Spouse | Pete Ohs (as of 2013) |
Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.
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]
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]
2017 LA Film Festival Announces Winners and Thanks Its Generous Sponsors