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Julia Loktev
American film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian–American film director, screenwriter, and video artist.
Early life
Julia Loktev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in a Jewish family.[1][2]. She immigrated to the United States as a child and lived in Colorado until leaving for college. She moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University.[3] She received an M.F.A. from the Graduate Film Program at New York University.[4]
Career
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In 1998 Loktev directed the documentary Moment of Impact , inspired her father who was severely injured in an automobile accident.[5] The documentary won the documentary Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival and the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Réel.[6]
Loktev was resident at Eyebeam in 2005.[7] In 2006 she directed Day Night Day Night which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 59th Cannes Film Festival, being recognized with the Prix Regard Jeune.[8] The film was critical acclaimed, winning several film festival competitions and an Independent Spirit Awards.[9]
Loktev received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.[4]
In 2011 Loktev adapted the short story Expensive Trips Nowhere into the film The Loneliest Planet.[10][11] The film competed in severals international film festivals, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles and being nominated at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.[6][12] In 2015, Richard Brody called her one of the best woman movie directors.[13]
In 2024 Loktev directed documentary film My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,[14][15] being critical acclaimend, winning severals accolades, inclufing the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary.[16]
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Filmography
- Moment of Impact (1998)
- Day Night Day Night (2006)
- The Loneliest Planet (2011)
- My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (2024)
Art installation
- Rough House, Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Global Feminisms" show[17] (2007)
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