Andrea Sisson
A white woman is sitting perpendicular to the camera, facing to the right; she has a red jacket (emblazoned with "05") draped over her shoulders, and her left hand is shielding her eyes.
Sisson in January 2016
Alma materBard College
OccupationFilm director
SpousePete Ohs (as of 2013)

Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.

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]

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.[5]

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. ↑ "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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