Jan Krawitz

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Jan Krawitz has been independently producing documentary films for 35 years. Her work has been exhibited at film festivals in the United States and abroad, including Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Edinburgh, SilverDocs, London, Sydney, Full Frame, South by Southwest and the Flaherty Film Seminar. She has recently completed Perfect Strangers, a documentary that follows one woman as she embarks on an unpredictable, four-year journey of twists and turns, determined to give away one of her kidneys. Krawitz’s previous film, Big Enough, was broadcast on the national PBS series P.O.V. and internationally in eighteen countries. Her documentaries, Mirror Mirror, In Harm’s Way, Little People, and Drive-in Blues were all broadcast on national PBS and her short film Styx is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Little Peoplewas nominated for a national Emmy Award and was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered. Krawitz has had one-woman retrospectives of her films at venues including the Portland Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Rice Media Center, the Austin Film Society, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2011, she was awarded an artist’s residency at Yaddo. Krawitz is a Professor at Stanford University where she teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Documentary Film and Video.

Most Popular Jan Krawitz Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

Perfect Strangers Trailer (2013)

11 June 2013

What lies beyond the art of giving and receiving? Ellie, a liberal Democrat and kind-hearted masseuse, decides she wants to share the gift of life with a stranger.

Mirror Mirror Trailer (1990)

28 June 1990

Mirror Mirror provocatively explores the relationship between a woman’s body image and the quest for an idealized female form.

Styx Trailer (1977)

01 January 1977

A very unusual exploration of the Philadelphia subway and its riders, which creatively utilizes black and white photography.

Faerie Tales Trailer (1992)

15 March 1992

A documentary on the group The Radical Faeries.

Esto, que llevo dentro Trailer (2021)

01 December 2021

In a letter to an artist lost to suicide at age twenty-eight, a filmmaker revisits his own battle with a rare anxiety disorder, forging an intimate relationship with his mother.

Drive-in Blues Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Drive-In Blues celebrates the drive-in and laments its decline. A blank white screen looms behind interviews with old-time theatre owners who reminisce about the heyday of the drive-in and confront the reality of a dying business.

Big Enough Trailer (2004)

02 November 2004

Meet Mark and Anu Trombino, Karla and John Lizzo, Len and Lenette Sawisch, and Sharon and Ron Roskamp.

Little People Trailer (1982)

09 October 1982

Documentary about dwarves and dwarfism.

Nice Girls Don't Ask Trailer (2025)

25 May 2025

In the 1950s, thousands of “social guidance” films were shown to shape behavior according to traditional gender norms.

Cotton Candy and Elephant Stuff Trailer (1979)

01 October 1979

The arduous lifestyle of a traveling tent circus often contradicts the romantic notion of “running away with a circus.