Jennifer Fox is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning director, producer, camera woman and educator who has been involved in countless documentaries over the last 25 years. Her first film, BEIRUT THE LAST HOME MOVIE, was broadcast in 20 countries and won seven international awards, including Best Documentary Film and Best Cinematography at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival and The Grand Prix at the 1988 Cinema Du Reel Festival, in Paris. She directed the groundbreaking ten hour PBS television series An American Love Story, which received a Gracie Award for Best Television Series and was named “One of the Top Ten Television Series of 1999” by The New York Times and five others major American papers. Her current work, the cutting edge six part film, FLYING CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN was made through a unique Danish American co-production and was funded by the Danish Film Institute, TV-2 Denmark, BBC, ARTE, YLE-1, SBS, SVT, ICON & Humanist Channels Netherlands and HBO -- and was awarded a prestigious Creative Capital Grant. FLYING had its world premieres at IDFA, in Amsterdam, and the Sundance Film Festival 2007 and is gearing up for its American theatrical premiere in New York City at the Film Forum in July to be distributed around the country for the following 9 months. It will air on the Sundance Channel in the US in Spring 2008. Fox is currently preparing to edit a new feature documentary, filmed over fifteen years, called LEARNING TO SWIM, co-produced with the Dutch Buddhist Television Network (BOS). Fox has Executive Produced many films including the award-winners: LOVE & DIANE; ON THE ROPES; DOUBLE EXPOSURE; PROJECT TEN: REAL STORIES FROM A FREE SOUTH AFRICA; COWBOYS, LAWYERS AND INDIANS; and the soon to be released, ABSOLUTELY SAFE? She has consulted on numerous documentaries, including SOUTHERN COMFORT and STONE READER. Fox is one of the subjects of two documentaries on filmmaking, The Heck With Hollywood! by Doug Block, and Cinema Verite, Defining The MomenT by Peter Wintonick.

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