Johanna Demetrakas

Johanna Demetrakas

História

Filmmaker and director Johanna Demetrakas has directed episodes of many television series including L.A. Law and Orde and Doogie Howser, M.D. She has also made award-winning film OUT OF LINE, starring Jennifer Beals, and the short film Homesick. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries and iconic feminist art films such as WOMANHOUSE and RIGHT OUT OF HISTORY. Most recently, Demetrakas directed a documentary focused on the arrival of Buddhism to the U.S. in the 70’s entitled CRAZY WISDOM. Demetrakas currently teaches cinematic arts at the University of Southern California.

Perfil

Johanna Demetrakas

Filmes

Feministas: O Que Elas Estavam Pensando?
Producer
A partir de fotos dos anos 70 que captaram o despertar do feminismo, o filme mergulha na vida das mulheres retratadas e explora a permanente necessidade de mudança.
Feministas: O Que Elas Estavam Pensando?
Director
A partir de fotos dos anos 70 que captaram o despertar do feminismo, o filme mergulha na vida das mulheres retratadas e explora a permanente necessidade de mudança.
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Producer
CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand and shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. Initially rejected, his teachings are now recognized by western philosophers and spiritual leaders as authentic and profound.
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Editor
CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand and shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. Initially rejected, his teachings are now recognized by western philosophers and spiritual leaders as authentic and profound.
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Director
CRAZY WISDOM explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chögyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand and shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. Initially rejected, his teachings are now recognized by western philosophers and spiritual leaders as authentic and profound.
Jimi Plays Berkeley
Assistant Editor
This rousing world-famous concert is regarded by critics to be one of Jimi Hendrix's finest performances ever. Taking footage from two separate performances at the Berkeley Community Theater on May 30th, 1970, these incendiary shows help illustrate the student uprisings in Berkeley, by setting footage to the stunning backdrop of some awe-inspiring Hendrix material. Tracks include "Purple Haze," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," "Star Spangled Banner," "Hey Joe," and many others. This is a never-to-be-forgotten musical experience you will enjoy over and over again.
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Editor
The struggle to eradicate apartheid in South Africa has been chronicled over time, but no one has addressed the vital role music plays in this challenge. This documentary by Lee Hirsch recounts a fascinating and little-known part of South Africa's political history through archival footage, interviews and, of course, several mesmerizing musical performances.
Out of Line
Director
Henry, a hitman hired to take out a socialite, finds himself falling for Jenny, a parole officer, instead.
Bus Rider's Union
Director
A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet earth. . . . The neglected bus system, which still handles 91% of all transit riders,is now roughly as efficient as travel by burro." Academy Award–winning cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler (Medium Cool, Latino) has now fashioned a new documentary tracing three years in the life of a group of bus-rider activists passionately engaged in the struggle to bring affordable, safe, and adequate mass transit back to their city. What might at first sound like a well-intentioned but rather parochial subject for a film has resulted in a truly inspiring lesson in how working-class, predominantly minority citizens forge an effective social movement and how, like Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotters of the 1950s, a group of committed individuals can successfully challenge the powers that seek to control their lives.
Some Nudity Required
Writer
A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
Some Nudity Required
Director
A woman working in the B movie industry begins examining the industry and the damaged, desperate people who work in it.
A Lente do Amor
Co-Producer
Sam (Matthew Broderick, de Curtindo a Vida Adoidado) é um romântico do interior, apaixonado pela jovem Lina (Kelly Preston, de Jerry Maguire). Maggie (Meg Ryan, de Sintonia de Amor) é fotógrafa em Nova York e não acredita mais no amor por causa de seu ex-noivo Anton (Tcheky Karyo). Duas vidas completamente opostas que o destino uniu por uma estranha coincidência: ambos foram abandonados pelas pessoas que amavam... E agora, Linda e Anton moram juntos e estão apaixonados! Maggie quer vingança a qualquer custo e só precisa convencer Sam a ajudá-la. Em pouco tempo, eles estão espionando cada detalhe da vida do casal e elaborando um plano divertidamente diabólico para acabar de uma vez por todas com esse romance. Mas as coisas não estão saindo exatamente como eles haviam planejado!
Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Director
For five years, feminist artist Judy Chicago worked with a community of four hundred other artists, craftspeople and researchers to create The Dinner Party, a monumental tribute to women of spirit and accomplishment throughout the ages -- women whose names have been banished "right out of history". For over four of those five years, filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas followed the progress of The Dinner Party, recording for posterity the alternately painstaking and exhilarating process of creating this work of unprecedented scale and beauty.
Nunzio
Editor
A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, and general confusion about women and his burgeoning desires for them.
Prisão Violentada
Editor
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Womanhouse
Director
Held in 1972 at 533 N. Mariposa Street, Los Angeles was one of the most important cultural events in the United States: "Womanhouse," a feminist art installation and performance space organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro.
Celebration at Big Sur
Director
Star-studded show recorded at the Big Sur Folk Festival, Big Sur, California, September 13th and 14th, 1969. Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, John Sebastian, and others. This film captures a remarkable moment in folk, rock, and pop history - the famous folk festival that brought traditional acts like Dorothy Morrison & The Combs Sisters and Carol Ann Cisneros together with the psychedelic rockers of the day who were most deeply rooted in the folk revival. Older songs like ‘Oh Happy Day,’ ‘Rise And Shine,’ ‘All God’s Children,’ and ‘Swing Down, Sweet Chariot’ meet Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock,’ Joan Baez’s ‘Sweet Sir Galahad,’ ‘Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Released,’ CSNY’s ‘Down By The River,’ and many more of the now-classic songs of what was then called the ‘new rock.’ The scene is notably intimate and - aside from one fan’s dustup with Stephen Stills - mellow, with many rare, close-up moments with the stars.