Andrea Sisson

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Andrea Sisson
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Sisson in January 2016
Alma mater Bard College
Occupation Film director
Spouse
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(divorced)​

Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.

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Personal life

Andrea Sisson's hometown is Cleves, Ohio. [1] In 2013, Sisson was married to fellow filmmaker Pete Ohs [2] —whom she met at a suburban Cincinnati water park —and living in Los Angeles. [3] In summer 2021, Sisson was pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. [4] On September 15, 2021, Ohs filed for divorce from Sisson. [5]

Career

After receiving a Fulbright fellowship, Sisson traveled to Iceland to direct and narrate her experimental [3] 70-minute documentary film about mental illness, I Send You This Place . [2] The work was a 2012 official selection at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Reykjavík International Film Festival, and was commercially released in summer 2013. [3]

In 2013, Sisson and Ohs were jointly named one of Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film". [3] That same year, they were working on Everything Beautiful Is Far Away , a "microbudget narrative project"; [3] at the 2017 LA Film Festival, it won the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Brown, Sherrod (October 27, 2010). "Sen. Brown Congratulates 16 Fulbright Scholars from Southwest Ohio". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate. Archived from the original on December 16, 2022. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Rapold, Nicolas (June 6, 2013). "Heady Times in Exotic Iceland". The New York Times . ISSN   1553-8095. OCLC   1645522. Archived from the original on October 17, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 H., B. (2013). "Andrea Sisson & Pete Ohs". Filmmaker . ISSN   1063-8954. Archived from the original on October 6, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) Presents Class of 2022 Thesis Exhibition, July 17–25, at Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery in Red Hook, NY". Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Bard College. July 13, 2021. Archived from the original on August 2, 2021. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  5. ↑ Ohs, Peter Edward vs Sisson, Andrea Lauren. UniCourt. September 15, 2021. Archived from the original on November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 6, 2024. On 09/15/2021 OHS, PETER EDWARD filed a Family - Marriage Dissolution/Divorce lawsuit against SISSON, ANDREA LAUREN. This case was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courts, Stanley Mosk Courthouse located in Los Angeles, California. The case status is Disposed - Other Disposed.
  6. ↑ "2017 LA Film Festival Announces Winners". Los Angeles: Film Independent. June 22, 2017. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2023. 2017 LA Film Festival Announces Winners and Thanks Its Generous Sponsors
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