People

Joy Jorgensen

Germany

Biography

Joy Jorgensen is the lead producer and founder of Killjoy Films. Joy has a Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia University and a Master’s Degree in Screenwriting and Directing at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is the recipient of a SAG Award for her work in television and the Media Services Award for excellence in creative producing. Recent feature projects include Runner (by Marian Mathias) which premiered in 2022 at TIFF and was selected for the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and Homebody (by Joseph Sackett) which won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Talent at Outfest 2021. Joy was a 2021 Sundance Producing Fellow. She is a 2022 Rotterdam Producing Fellow and the 2022 recipient of the New York Women in Film Grant from the City of New York. She is based in Berlin and Brooklyn.

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