Andrea Sisson
Film director
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Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.
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Andrea Sisson | |
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Sisson in January 2016 | |
| Alma mater | Bard College |
| Occupation | Film director |
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Personal life
Andrea Sisson's hometown is Cleves, Ohio.[1] In[update] 2013, Sisson was married to fellow filmmaker Pete Ohs[2]—whom she met at a water park in suburban Cincinnati—and living in Los Angeles.[3] In summer 2021, Sisson was pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.[4] On September 15, 2021, Ohs filed for divorce from Sisson.[5]
Career
After receiving a Fulbright fellowship, Sisson traveled to Iceland to direct and narrate her experimental[3] 70-minute documentary film about mental illness, I Send You This Place.[2] The work was a 2012 official selection at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Reykjavík International Film Festival, and was commercially released in summer 2013.[3]
In 2013, Sisson and Ohs were jointly named one of Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film".[3] That same year, they were working on Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, a "microbudget narrative project";[3] at the 2017 LA Film Festival, it won the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award.[6]
