Killjoy was founded in New York in 2014 and moved to Berlin in 2016. We produce short and feature narrative projects with a focus on new voices and emerging directors from around the globe.
We think a story can and should contain the complexity of what it is to be human and we strive for content that is daring and undeterred by fear of perception. Many of our films exist in the tension between joy and heartbreak, between the generosity of our better natures and the twinge of petty selfishness.
Our films are incise and meandering, profoundly generous and tightly composed, funny and gut-wrenchingly sad. The films have premiered worldwide including festivals such as Sundance, TIFF, San Sebastian, SXSW and Cannes.
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Joy Jorgensen
Joy Jorgensen is the lead producer and founder of Killjoy Films. Joy has a Bachelor's Degree from Columbia University and a Master's Degree in Screenwriting and Directing at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Recent features include WE STRANGERS (dir. Anu Valia), which premiered at SXSW 2024 and recently won Best Narrative Feature at both Seattle International Film Festival and New Orleans Film Festival, RUNNER (dir. Marian Mathias) which premiered at TIFF 2022 and HOMEBODY (dir. Joseph Sackett) which won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Talent at Outfest 2021.
Notable shorts include LAPS (Special Jury Award Sundance 2016, dir. Charlotte Wells ) BLUE CHRISTMAS (TIFF, Sundance, dir. Charlotte Wells) and BAMBIRAK (Best International Short Film Sundance 2020, dir. Zamarin Wahdat.)
Joy is a 2021 Sundance Producing Fellow, 2022 Rotterdam Producing Fellow, 2022 Torino Film Lab Script Editing Fellow, recipient of the 2022 New York Women in Film Grant, and a 2024 Ingmar Bergman Institute Resident at Bergman Island.
She is a member of the Television Academy and the European Film Academy. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Film department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is based in Berlin and Brooklyn.
Impressum
Angaben gemäß § 5 TMG
Killjoy Films GmbH
Spenerstrasse 25a 10557 Berlin
Handelsregister: HRB 212197 B
Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg
Vertreten durch:
Lauren Joy Jorgensen
Kontakt
Telefon: +49 151 19671145
E-Mail: kontakt@killjoyfilms.de
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Runner
After the sudden death of her father, Haas meets Will. A story of two strangers finding, changing, and ultimately leaving one another.
+ Cannes Cinéfondation Residency 2018
+ Torino Feature Lab 2019
+ Creative Media Europe Co-Production Award Winner
+ A Post Lab 2019
+ Venice Production Bridge - Gap Financing Market 2020
Written & Directed by Marian Mathias
Produced by Joy Jorgensen
Photography by Jomo Fray
Edited by Blair McClendon
Film, Color, 100”
Indiana and Illinois, along the Mississippi River
FILM FESTIVALS
TIFF
San Sebastian (Special Jury Prize)
Bogota IFF
Chicago IFF
Los Cabos FF
Thessaloniki IFF
Taipei Golden Horse FF
Cineuropa Santiago De Compostela (Best Director)
Torino FF
Cairo IFF
Kerala IFF
Goteborg IFF (Ingmar Bergman Award)
Uruguay IFF
Shanghai IFF
Art Film Festival
Film Independent Festival Visions
Bergman Week Faro
Galway Film Fleadh
American Film Festival Deauville
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