Vivian Kleiman documentary filmmaker

Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker.[1] She has received a National Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Research [2] and executive produced an Academy Award nominated documentary.[3]

Kleiman directed and produced the feature documentary No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (2021), which chronicles queer history in the U.S. through the stories of five featured comic book artists — Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Howard Cruse, Rupert Kinnard, and Mary Wings. The film premiered in June 2021 at Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and AFI DOCS. It has screened at film festivals worldwide, and took home the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize at Outfest and the NLGJA: Association of LGBTQ Journalists Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. No Straight Lines was broadcast on the National PBS award-winning series Independent Lens January 2023.

In 2019, Kleiman was awarded a Eureka Fellowship of the Fleishhacker Foundation, a fellowship program for visual artists by invitation only.

Also an educator, she served as Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University's Graduate Program in Documentary Film and Video Production from 1995–2004.

Kleiman was a long time collaborator with Black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs.[4] They founded Signifyin' Works in 1991, which creates and distributes films about the experiences of African Americans. Directed by Riggs, their 1992 film Color Adjustment screened at the Sundance Film Festival[5] and received the International Documentary Association's IDA Award,[6] the Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians[7] and the George Foster Peabody Award in 1993.[8]

Selected filmography

As executive producer

As producer

As director/producer

  • No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics (world premiere Tribeca Festival 2021)
  • Families Are Forever[11] Commissioned by the Family Acceptance Project, 21 minutes, 2013[12]
    • Audience Award, LA Outfest; Best Documentary Short, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
  • Always My Son Commissioned by the Family Acceptance Project, 16 minutes, 2011
  • Profiles of Change Commissioned by Rubicon Programs, 8 minutes, 2011
  • Bianca's Journey Commissioned by the Family Acceptance Project, 8 minutes, 2010
  • The Meaning of Food PBS, 3 x 60 minute series, 2005 (also Series Producer)
  • My Body's My Business 16 minutes, 1992.
  • Out For The Count Commissioned by Lavender Message Project, 14 minutes, 1992.
  • Ein Stehaufmannchen Commissioned by Shana Films, 40 minutes, 1991.[13]

As consultant or writer

  • Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics & Men, (Director Sascha Jenkins) Story Consultant, 4 part series, Showtime, 2019
  • Strike Anywhere Films - (founded by Barry Jenkins) feature-length documentary, Writer, 2018 (work-in-progress)
  • Something Ventured - Consulting Producer, 85 minutes, PBS (Directors Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller), 2011.
  • Ripe for Change - Consulting Writer, one hour, PBS (Director Emiko Omori), 2005.
  • The Cockettes- 100-minutes, PBS (Directors David Weissman and Bill Weber), 2002.

Selected awards

References

  1. ↑ Color Adjustment, retrieved 2018-02-23
  2. ↑ Variety Staff (1993-07-22). "ABC, PBS lead news Emmy nominees". Variety. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. ↑ "The Oscars 2022 News, Blogs & Articles | 94th Academy Awards". oscar.go.com. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  4. ↑ Pappas, Lydia. "Finding Aid for Marlon Riggs Papers, 1957-1994" (PDF). Stanford Library.
  5. ↑ Color Adjustment, retrieved 2018-03-23
  6. ↑ "California Newsreel - COLOR ADJUSTMENT". newsreel.org. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  7. ↑ "Organization of American Historians: Erik Barnouw Award Winners". www.oah.org. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  8. ↑ "POV: Color Adjustment". Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  9. ↑ Freeman, Paul (September 19, 2007). "'Near Normal Man' battles Nazis again, for the third time in 7 decades". The Mercury News. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  10. ↑ Glasser, Ira (2017-02-08). "Staying Alive, Staying Human". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  11. ↑ "2013 Films & Showtimes". Nevada Film Festival. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  12. ↑ ""Families are Forever" Shows the Journey of Devout Mormon Parents to Accept Young Gay Son". The Family Acceptance Project. June 18, 2013. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  13. ↑ Walker-Hill, Helen (9 March 2007). From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. University of Illinois Press. p. 314. ISBN 978-0-252-07454-7.
  14. ↑ Walker-Hill, Helen (2007-03-09). From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. University of Illinois Press. p. 314. ISBN 9780252074547. peabody award vivian kleiman.
  15. ↑ Variety Staff (1993-07-22). "ABC, PBS lead news Emmy nominees". Variety. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  16. ↑ Color Adjustment, retrieved 2018-02-23
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