Joni DeRouchie (born 1973) is an American film and video music
director, from Portland, Oregon.A self-taught writer, director and
photographer from Portland, Oregon, DeRouchie began painting in high
school and progressed to photography due to the frustration she felt
at the inability to capture what she saw. After a couple years,
photography progressed into a desire to capture what she saw in moving
form, including stage direction and film.She first received major
attention as a 2001 Project Greenlight semi-finalist with her
feature-length script The Frank Principle. In 2002, she directed a
20-minute short film adaptation of scenes from The Frank Principle,
which premiered at the Split.ID Film Festival[clarification needed] in
Hollywood in January 2003.In 2003, she directed Rick Emerson's one-man
stage show, Bigger Than Jesus: The Diary of a Rock and Roll Fan, which
debuted to a sold-out, standing-room-only audience that summer and was
later returned for a successful run in 2004. She combined with Rick
Emerson again on a short thriller called Remote Control, which played
in 2004 at both the New York International Independent Film and Video
Festival and the Portland Underground Film Festival.
director, from Portland, Oregon.A self-taught writer, director and
photographer from Portland, Oregon, DeRouchie began painting in high
school and progressed to photography due to the frustration she felt
at the inability to capture what she saw. After a couple years,
photography progressed into a desire to capture what she saw in moving
form, including stage direction and film.She first received major
attention as a 2001 Project Greenlight semi-finalist with her
feature-length script The Frank Principle. In 2002, she directed a
20-minute short film adaptation of scenes from The Frank Principle,
which premiered at the Split.ID Film Festival[clarification needed] in
Hollywood in January 2003.In 2003, she directed Rick Emerson's one-man
stage show, Bigger Than Jesus: The Diary of a Rock and Roll Fan, which
debuted to a sold-out, standing-room-only audience that summer and was
later returned for a successful run in 2004. She combined with Rick
Emerson again on a short thriller called Remote Control, which played
in 2004 at both the New York International Independent Film and Video
Festival and the Portland Underground Film Festival.
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