Jane Weinstock

Jane Weinstock graduated from Princeton University and attended graduate programs at the Slade, NYU and the Paris Film Program. She has taught and written about film and about contemporary art at various institutions including NYU, the University of California Los Angeles and Cal Arts. She has written about such artists as Sally Potter, John Cassavetes, Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall, Barbara Bloom, Martha Rosler, Barbara Kruger, Mary Kelly and Christian Boltanski. She was also the film and video curator of Difference: On Representation and Sexuality at the New Museum in New York and at the ICA in London.

Weinstock began filmmaking with Sigmund Freud’s Dora and went on to make Voices of Silence (for German Television) and The Clean Up. Weinstock participated in the Sundance Directors Lab and then went on to write and direct feature films. Her first feature Easy, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was in Dramatic Competetion at the Sundance Film Festival. She is planning to direct her next film, The Moment, which she co-wrote, in New York in the Fall of 2010. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.