Jennifer Kramer(III)

Jennifer Kramer is an award-winning film producer, director, and writer. She wrote, directed and produced THE SAND BOX, where it garnered Best Feature Film-Drama at Sedona International Film Festival, 2017; Grand Jury Award, Alexandria International Film Festival, 2017; Best Feature Film, Chicago's Ethnographic Film Festival, 2017; Audience Award, Houston Black Fill Festival, 2017; Best Feature nomination, Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, 2016. It has screened at 17 film festivals throughout the US and internationally including Burgas International Film Festival, San Diego International Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival where it won Audience Award and reviewed as "one of the top films not to be missed" by Star Tribune. Kramer produced the critically acclaimed independent feature film GHOST FROM THE MACHINE, which premiered at Fantasia Festival, Montreal and is distributed by Screen Media Films (Domestic), Bleiberg Entertainment (Foreign). It was one of ten films selected for the prestigious IFP NYC Narrative Lab and the option rights were sold to Universal Pictures. Her short film LOOKING PAST YOU, which she wrote, directed and produced, screened at numerous film festivals throughout the US. It is distributed by The Pentagon Channel, where it is shown on every US military base worldwide and in 34 million American households via cable. Her short films have screened at internationally renowned museums including the Walker Art Center and Weisman Art Museum. Kramer is the 2016 recipient of the Jerome Foundation grant for the development of her documentary on the world's deadliest city, Ciudad Juárez. She is currently working with Teté Films based in Mexico City. She is the recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board grant to create the first in a series of films titled FOUND WOMEN, about the wives of famous men. Kramer is a member of Film Fatales, the national organization of female film directors.