Joanna Lipper

Joanna Lipper is a filmmaker, photographer and author of the nationally acclaimed book, Growing Up Fast. Her work as a documentary filmmaker has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, ITVS, Britdoc Foundation, the Tribeca Gucci Documentary Fund and Chicken & Egg Pictures. In 2012, she won the Tribeca Gucci Spotlighting Women Documentary Award for The Supreme Price. Previous films include Inside Out: Portraits of Children, Growing up Fast and Little Fugitive. As a Lecturer at Harvard, she teaches AAAS 109 “Using Film For Social Change.” This course integrates film, photography and social engagement and is cross-listed in Women’s Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies.

For more info and to view trailers and clips from Joanna Lipper’s films, please visit:

www.joannalipper.com

Joanna Lipper's Faculty Homepage

MacArthur Foundation Grant

http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/news/visiting-lecturer-joanna-lipper-awarded-documentary-film-grant-macarthur-foundation

The Supreme Price

http://goodfilm.org/film/d/238/The+Supreme+Price

Tribeca Gucci Spotlighting Women Documentary Award

http://www.fondationppr.org/blog.php?btype[]=5

Growing Up Fast - Press and Reviews

http://joannalipper.com/books_reviews.html

Photo Gallery

http://jhlportfolio.viewbook.com

Recent Photography Exhibition

http://jhlportfolio.viewbook.com/album/photodemerexhibition#1

SELECTED PRESS ABOUT JOANNA LIPPER'S WORK:

"Rust Proof"

"'Portraits of Children:' Joanna Lipper's film journeys to a world of fairies, elves and imagination"

"Du Bois fellow makes ‘Little Fugitive,’ take two"

BOOK REVIEWS (New York Times, Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly etc...)

Press release – MacArthur Documentary Film Fund Awards