Joy Jorgensen is the lead producer and founder of Killjoy Films. Recent features include WE STRANGERS (dir. Anu Valia), which premiered at SXSW 2024 and recently won Best Narrative Feature at both Seattle International Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival, RUNNER (dir. Marian Mathias) which premiered at TIFF 2022 and HOMEBODY (dir. Joseph Sackett) which won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Talent at Outfest 2021. Notable shorts include LAPS (Special Jury Award Sundance 2016, dir. Charlotte Wells ) BLUE CHRISTMAS (TIFF, Sundance, dir. Charlotte Wells) and BAMBIRAK (Best International Short Film Sundance 2020, dir. Zamarin Wahdat.) Joy is a 2021 Sundance Producing Fellow, 2022 Rotterdam Producing Fellow, 2022 Torino Film Lab Script Editing Fellow, recipient of the 2022 New York Women in Film Grant, and a 2024 Ingmar Bergman Institute Resident at Bergman Island. She is a member of the Television Academy and the European Film Academy. 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 where she is also an adjunct faculty member. She is based in Berlin and Brooklyn.
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