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American film director
Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian–American film director, screenwriter, and
video artist .
Early life
Julia Loktev was born in
Leningrad ,
Soviet Union (now
St. Petersburg ,
Russia ). She immigrated to the United States as a child and lived in
Colorado until leaving for college. She moved to
Montreal to study English and film at
McGill University .
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Career
Loktev came across
Tom Bishell 's book of short stories
God Lives in St. Petersburg and read it because she had been born in
St. Petersburg . She decided to adapt the short story Expensive Trips Nowhere into the film
The Loneliest Planet transporting the setting from
Kazakhstan to
Georgia .
[2]
Loktev was resident at
Eyebeam in 2005.
[3]
In 2015,
Richard Brody called her one of the best woman movie directors.
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Personal life
Loktev is
Jewish .
[5]
[6]
In 1989, when she was 19, her father was severely injured in an automobile accident. The event was the subject of her 1998 documentary
Moment of Impact .
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Films
Art installation
References
^
"Moments of Impact: A Conversation with Julia Loktev" . MUBI . 23 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-12-26 .
^ Kelsey, Colleen (26 October 2012).
"HUMAN, NATURE: JULIA LOKTEV ON THE LONELIEST PLANET" . Retrieved 1 August 2015 .
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"Julia Loktev | eyebeam.org" . www.eyebeam.org . Retrieved 2016-01-27 .
^ Brody, Richard (11 December 2015).
"The Best Movies of 2015" .
The New Yorker . Retrieved 12 December 2015 .
^
"Fellows: Julia Loktev" . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from
the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved August 6, 2014 .
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"PUBLIC LIVES; From a Daughter, Scenes of a Life in Limbo" . The New York Times . January 30, 1998.
^ Smith, D (24 October 2012).
"Julia Loktev, The Loneliest Planet" . Retrieved 1 August 2015 .
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"What Makes Julia Loktev, the Director of a New Movie About a Female Suicide Bomber, Tick" . New York Magazine. 4 May 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2007 .
External links
International National Artists People