San Francisco-based Jenni Olson has been programming, researching, collecting, creating, and writing about lesbian, gay, bi and transgender (LGBT) film since 1986 and is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema history. Jenni's new short film, 575 Castro St. (shot on the Castro Camera Store set of Milk) was commissioned by FilmInFocus and had its film festival premiere at Sundance 2009 in January. Watch 575 Castro St. now on FilmInFocus!
Jenni Olson
My Interests
My kids, pinball, getting through that stack of New Yorkers.
My kids, pinball, getting through that stack of New Yorkers.
Favorite Movies
Times Square; Go Fish; D.E.B.S.; Massilon; Tongues Untied; Paris Is Burning; Sink Or Swim; By Hook Or By Crook; Boys Don't Cry; Sherman's March; Vertigo; American Beauty; Stranger Than Paradise; Caged; Rebel Without A Cause.
Times Square; Go Fish; D.E.B.S.; Massilon; Tongues Untied; Paris Is Burning; Sink Or Swim; By Hook Or By Crook; Boys Don't Cry; Sherman's March; Vertigo; American Beauty; Stranger Than Paradise; Caged; Rebel Without A Cause.
Favorite Directors
Sadie Benning, Su Friedrich, Marlon Riggs, Chantal Akerman, William Jones, Angela Robinson.
Sadie Benning, Su Friedrich, Marlon Riggs, Chantal Akerman, William Jones, Angela Robinson.
Favorite Quotes
"I have a penchant for sad red bricks/and the sun burning itself up out there/for toll booths and water towers and/I am waiting for you to love me" —Frank O'Hara, from [The Light Comes On By Itself]
"I have a penchant for sad red bricks/and the sun burning itself up out there/for toll booths and water towers and/I am waiting for you to love me" —Frank O'Hara, from [The Light Comes On By Itself]
