Johanna Demetrakas

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Johanna Demetrakas
Born1937 (age 8788)
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • television director

Johanna Demetrakas is an American independent filmmaker and television director known for documentaries like Womanhouse and Right Out of History. She has worked as a professor at Cal Arts and USC. [1]

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Career

She attended Rhode Island School of Design, where she majored in Illustration. In 1971, Demetrakas co-directed the doc Celebration at Big Sur , which captured performances by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and Dorothy Morrison at the Big Sur Folk Festival. The film was acquired by 20th Century Fox. [2] She followed that up with Womanhouse, a doc about the feminist art installation at Cal Arts. [3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. "Johanna Demetrakas | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  2. "Acquires 'Big Sur'". The Salt Lake Tribune. 19 Apr 1971. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  3. Gross, Linda (11 Oct 1975). "Documentaries of Woman Artists". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-01-01.