JOHN LIGHTFOOT

MFA San Francisco State University
MA Brown University
BA New York University

Films (partial list)
OBITUARY: A Caustic Tale (director/camera/editor)
Tales from Puritan Land (in progress)
Atomic No. 29 (in progress)
Jimmy Sings the Blues (videographer/editor)
A Rare and Desolate Beauty (director/camera/editor)
The Minneapolis Wrestling Club (director/camera/editor)
Down on Skid Row (director)

Selected Screenings
Walker Art Center, Pacific Film Archive, Mass MOCA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Weisman Art Museum, Des Moines Art Center, PBS, film festivals here and there

Grants and Awards

John Gutmann Award for Best Experimental Documentary Graduate Thesis, San Francisco State University, 2007

Mediamaker Award, Bay Area Video Coalition, 2007

Fotokem Award, Fotokem Film & Video, 2005

Princess Grace Foundation, USA Graduate Film Award, Cary Grant Film Award, 2003

John Gutmann Award for Excellence in Documentary, San Francisco State University,2003

Audience Award for Best Documentary, Grand Rapids Underground Film Festival, 2000

Jury Award for Best Documentary, Bargain Basement Film Festival, 1999

Artist’s Production Grant, Midwest Media Artists Access Center, 1997