Participant Info
- First Name
- Jenni
- Last Name
- Olson
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- butch@butch.org
- Affiliation
- Independent researcher, archivist & historian
- Website URL
- http://www.butch.org
- Keywords
- LGBT film
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- LGBT film historian
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
One of the world’s leading experts on LGBT cinema history, Jenni Olson is an independent writer and non-fiction filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. Her work as an experimental filmmaker and her expansive collection of LGBTQ film prints and memorabilia was acquired by the Harvard Film Archive in 2020; and her reflection on the last 30 years of LGBT film history, in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2021. Jenni’s work as a film historian includes the Lambda Award nominatedThe Queer Movie Poster Book (Chronicle Books, 2005). Amongst her many efforts in championing LGBT films and filmmakers, she is a founding advisory board member of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project for LGBT Moving Image Preservation. She holds a BA in Film Studies from the University of Minnesota and is currently an independent consultant in marketing and digital film distribution. A 2018 MacDowell Fellow, Jenni is now in development on her third feature-length essay film, The Quiet World and an essayistic memoir of the same name.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- JenniOlsonSF
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Expertise by Chronology
- Expertise by Topic
