Jen Heck is an American writer, director, and producer best known for
her award-winning films. Her work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial
(2004), and at major film festivals including the Sundance Film
Festival, the São Paulo International Film Festival, the Palm Springs
International Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film
Festival. Her stories are often described as "quirky", with themes of
love, isolation, and the delicate nature of relationships between
young women commonly recurring. Her signature visual style often
incorporates found or pre-existing media with rich, original material
to create a unique, heavily stylized narrative result.Her current
project, "The Promised Band," is a feature-length documentary about a
group of women in Israel and Palestine who start a fake band as a way
to explore their taboo friendships. The band is a metaphor for the
greater society, with each character playing an archetypal role. The
band struggles and fails for the same reasons the society itself
struggles and fails, and when the women are able to achieve a modest
triumph, the film posits that women in warring societies may be the
key to peace. "The Promised Band" premiered at the Cinequest Film
Festival in March 2016 and took home both the Award for Best
Documentary and the Canon Filmmaker Award.Ms. Heck's work has garnered
a number of other awards and nominations as well, including honors
from New York Women in Film and Television, the Iris Prize, Zurich's
Pink Apple, the Short Movie Awards, the Provincetown International
Film Festival, the Big Muddy Film Festival, and Newfest.
her award-winning films. Her work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial
(2004), and at major film festivals including the Sundance Film
Festival, the São Paulo International Film Festival, the Palm Springs
International Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film
Festival. Her stories are often described as "quirky", with themes of
love, isolation, and the delicate nature of relationships between
young women commonly recurring. Her signature visual style often
incorporates found or pre-existing media with rich, original material
to create a unique, heavily stylized narrative result.Her current
project, "The Promised Band," is a feature-length documentary about a
group of women in Israel and Palestine who start a fake band as a way
to explore their taboo friendships. The band is a metaphor for the
greater society, with each character playing an archetypal role. The
band struggles and fails for the same reasons the society itself
struggles and fails, and when the women are able to achieve a modest
triumph, the film posits that women in warring societies may be the
key to peace. "The Promised Band" premiered at the Cinequest Film
Festival in March 2016 and took home both the Award for Best
Documentary and the Canon Filmmaker Award.Ms. Heck's work has garnered
a number of other awards and nominations as well, including honors
from New York Women in Film and Television, the Iris Prize, Zurich's
Pink Apple, the Short Movie Awards, the Provincetown International
Film Festival, the Big Muddy Film Festival, and Newfest.
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