Jacki Ochs

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Jacki Ochs
Born1951
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute (BFA)
Occupation
  • Director
  • producer
  • professor
Years active1975–present

Jacki Ochs is an American documentary filmmaker. Ochs has been producing and directing film and hybrid forms for over thirty years.

Career[]

Ochs began her career within the NYC art scene of the mid-70's making short experimental works and doing cinematography and photography for Anthony McCall, JoAnne Akalaitis, Robin Winters, Dennis Oppenheim, Lizzie Borden and Yvonne Rainer.

In 1976 Ochs joined with St. Louis experimental jazz musicians Lester Bowie, Joseph Bowie and Charles "Bobo" Shaw to establish the Human Arts Association. The Human Arts Association (HAA) is an independent 501(c)(3) charity,[1] arts sponsoring organization which has sponsored many concerts, dance and poetry performances. Ochs has served as the Executive Director of HAA since 1980.

Ochs produced, directed and shot the award-winning investigative film Vietnam: The Secret Agent. Premiering at the New York Film Festival (1983), it went on to receive a Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, John Grierson Award for Best New Director from the American Film Festival and wide theatrical release through First Run Features. Some other films produced, directed and edited by Jacki include Jazz Summit (1987) and Letters Not About Love (1998), a collaboration with poets Lyn Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and scored by Larry Ochs (musician) which garnered Best Documentary Feature at its South by Southwest premiere.

As a producer, Ochs has partnered twice with Director Susanna Styron on 9/12: From Chaos to Community (2006) and Out of My Head (2017).[2] She produced and executive produced Kristi Zea's Emmy-nominated Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray (2016), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She Executive Produced Keith Beauchamp (filmmaker)'s NAACP and Emmy award winning Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2005).

Jacki is an adjunct full professor with the Pratt Institute Film Video department.

Awards[]

  • Guggenheim Foundation, Fellowship (2001) [3]
  • New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Film Fellowship (1987) [4]
  • MacDowell Colony, Fellowship (1987) [5]

References[]

  1. ^ "Human Arts Association". humanarts.org. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  2. ^ "Out Of My Head Film". outofmyheadfilm.com. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Jacki Ochs". gf.org. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  4. ^ "NYFA Directory of Artists' Felllows 1985-2013" (PDF). New York Foundation for the Arts. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
  5. ^ "Jacki Ochs Artist MacDowell". macdowell.org. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
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