JENNIFER FOX

About the Film

Documentary, Drama

Jennifer Fox

Writer/Director

Jennifer Fox is an internationally acclaimed producer, director, writer and camerawoman. She wrote and directed: Beirut: The Last Home Movie (Grand Prize Winner & Best Cinematography, Sundance Film Festival 1988; Frontline WGBH), the ten-hour An American Love Story (Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals 1999, Gracie Award 1999, Primetime PBS/BBC/ARTE), the six-part, Flying Confessions of a Free Woman (IDFA and Sundance Film Festivals 2008; Sundance Channel), and the feature My Reincarnation (Emmy Awardâ nominated, IDFA and Hamptons Film Festivals; IDFA Audience Award 2010; Premiere POV 2012). Fox has executive produced numerous award winning films including: Love & Diane; On the Ropes and She’s Lost Control. She is the author of the screenplays, Lila: A Fairtale, co-written with Academy Awardâ nominated Oren Moverman (The Messenger), and the half-hour fiction television pilot, The Good Egg, co-written with Deborah Copaken Kogan (Shutterbabe), now optioned for development. Fox recently completed writing and directing the fiction feature, The Tale, which is currently in post-production and is due to be released in 2017. The film’s outstanding all-star cast includes: Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Ritter and Common.  An issue-based drama, The Tale has been financed through a unique funding mixture: including equity financing, tax credits, German co-production, foundation grants and tax exempt donations. The Tale is being produced by Laura Rister, Oren Moverman, Lawrence Inglee, and Sol Bondy, with Mongrel Media International representing foreign sales. Fox appeared in several films about filmmaking: To Heck With Holliwood!; Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment; and Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary. Fox teaches master classes and in Universities internationally. Her films have been shown in numerous retrospectives around the world.


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