Jesse Kreitzer

BIOGRAPHIE

Jesse Kreitzer is a Vermont-based filmmaker whose documentary and narrative films explore rural life, folk cultures, and traditions. His work has received both Oscar®-qualifying and regional Emmy® awards and screened at galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide including The National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Museum of the Moving Image (New York), Biografilm (Italy), Raindance (UK), Camden (Maine), and Oldenburg (Germany). His films have been distributed on PBS, Vermont PBS, Directors Notes, Film Threat, BooooomTV, and Omeleto. Kreitzer holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinema and Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor's degree in Visual & Media Arts from Emerson College. He has received support from the LEF Foundation, Kodak, AARP, National Arts Strategies, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Vermont Arts Council with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in southern Vermont where he spends his free time restoring an 1830s one-room schoolhouse.

FILMOGRAPHIE