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Killjoy Films produces independent cinema from Berlin and Los Angeles. We work with directors at the earliest stages of a project and stay through the end.

Alongside production, we advise on creative development, film business strategy, and media partnerships.
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Joy Jorgensen

Joy Jorgensen is the founder and lead producer of Killjoy Films. She holds a Bachelor's Degree from Columbia University and a Master's Degree in Screenwriting and Directing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Recent features include WE STRANGERS (dir. Anu Valia), which premiered at SXSW 2024 and won Best Narrative Feature at both the Seattle International Film Festival and the 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 TorinoFilmLab 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, and has taught producing as an adjunct in the Graduate Film department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

She is also Head of Development and Production at Getty Images Originals, a North American Ambassador for TorinoFilmLab, and the Artistic Director of the Highlands Cashiers Film Festival. She is based in Berlin and Los Angeles.
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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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Destroy All Girls 

When Alex bolts from her stifling home life to ride with a band of inline street skaters, escape comes easy at first, but as family and identity collide she's forced to face the one thing she can't outride—herself


Directed by Erin Vassilopoulos
Written by Ani Mesa and Gil Perez-Abraham
Produced by Joy Jorgensen and Benjamin Cohen
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We Strangers

When Ray Martin, a Black woman living in Gary, Indiana, takes a job cleaning the houses of several rich white families across town, she shares one small lie that ends up spinning out of control.

The film is supported by Cinereach, Sundance Institute, Women in Film, Tribeca Institute, IFP, and Hamptons Screenwriters Lab.

Directed by Anu Valia
Written by Anu Valia
Produced by Joy Jorgensen, Zachary Spicer, Alex Bach and Olivia Wingate 
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