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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