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Films and Filmmakers Series

October 1, 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location School of Communication and Media
SponsorFilms and Filmmakers SeriesCostFreePosted InFilm Forum at Montclair State
seriesFilms and Filmmakers

Lise Raven is a US/German filmmaker. She is a founding member of the Slamdance Film Festival and her debut feature Low screened internationally. In 2000, Raven was awarded the prestigious DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Artist Residency in Filmmaking and moved to Berlin where she also received a NIPKOW Fellowship. In 2003, she was selected for the Berlinale Talents. In 2004 Raven's feature film project,  Snipe, was chosen for the MOONSTONE Directing Lab, and received development funding from the Irish Film Board. Raven's 2007 film, Stride, told the story of a female combat soldier returning home to her tight-knit Philadelphia neighborhood. In 2014 Raven wrote, produced and directed the award-winning feature Kinderwald.

Raven's newest feature film, Snaeland, was filmed in Iceland and Berlin in the summer of 2018, and received production support from Fractured Atlas, Film Fatales, and The Listhus Artist Residency. Raven is a member of EWA, Primetime, and Film Fatales. Raven is an Associate Professor in the FILMMAKING BFA Program at Montclair State University. Noveltine / Projects is Lise Raven's creative think tank.