Janet Baus is an American documentary film and television director,
producer and editor. In 1993, she co-directed Lesbian Avengers Eat
Fire Too with Su Friedrich, about activist group the Lesbian Avengers.
In 2003 she produced John Scagliotti's film Dangerous Living: Coming
Out in the Developing World about gay and lesbian people in
non-Western countries. She had worked with Scagliotti before, having a
co-producer credit on his 1999 film After Stonewall. Her 2006 film
Cruel and Unusual, co-directed with Dan Hunt and Reid Williams, was a
documentary about pre-operative male-female transsexual women in men's
prisons. It won the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award at the 2006
Frameline Film Festival and the Freedom Award at L.A. Outfest. Baus
has also won the Cine Golden Eagle, the Vito Russo Award, the Chicago
International Television Award and the Gold Aurora Award.
producer and editor. In 1993, she co-directed Lesbian Avengers Eat
Fire Too with Su Friedrich, about activist group the Lesbian Avengers.
In 2003 she produced John Scagliotti's film Dangerous Living: Coming
Out in the Developing World about gay and lesbian people in
non-Western countries. She had worked with Scagliotti before, having a
co-producer credit on his 1999 film After Stonewall. Her 2006 film
Cruel and Unusual, co-directed with Dan Hunt and Reid Williams, was a
documentary about pre-operative male-female transsexual women in men's
prisons. It won the Michael J. Berg Documentary Award at the 2006
Frameline Film Festival and the Freedom Award at L.A. Outfest. Baus
has also won the Cine Golden Eagle, the Vito Russo Award, the Chicago
International Television Award and the Gold Aurora Award.
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