Jennie Livingston looks at the camera and smiles. She wears eyeglasses. Portrait in black and white.
Jennie Livingston
Photo courtesy Jennie Livingston
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Jennie Livingston’s (she/her) film Paris is Burning won a Sundance Grand Jury Prize and was included in New York Magazine’s 2008 40th anniversary approval matrix. Livingston’s films include Who’s the Top?, a musical sex comedy that The Los Angeles Times called “witty and accomplished;” and Through the Ice, which was seen on WNET and at Sundance. Her film work has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, Netflix, and numerous donors. Her most recent work-for-hire appears in Elton John’s current stage show.

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