Andrea Sisson is a

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recipient and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

Personal life

Andrea Sisson's hometown is

Cleves, Ohio Cleves is a village in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 3,234 at the 2010 census. Founded in 1818, it is named for John Cleves Symmes who lived here, laid out the original tow ...

. 2013, Sisson was married to fellow filmmaker

Pete Ohs Pete Ohs is an American filmmaker. He is known for writing & directing the feature films ''Jethica'' (2022) and '' Everything Beautiful is Far Away'' (2017) as well as directing music videos for Best Coast, Wavves, Slow Club, and The Fiery Furnac ...

—whom she met at a suburban

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

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—and living in

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. In summer 2021, Sisson was pursuing a

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

from the

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts is a graduate program associated with Bard College that grants Master of Fine Arts degrees. Founded in 1981, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (otherwise known as the Bard MFA program) is a nontraditi ...

Bard College Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic ...

Career

After receiving a

, Sisson traveled to Iceland to direct and narrate her experimental 70-minute

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about

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, '' I Send You This Place''. The work was a 2012 official selection at the

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema. The festival is a program of the Center for Documentary Studies, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) at Duke University. ...

and

Reykjavík International Film Festival Reykjavík International Film Festival (RIFF; is, Alþjóðleg kvikmyndahátíð í Reykjavík ) is an international film festival held annually in Reykjavík, Iceland. The festival lasts 11 days each year and emphasizes young talents. One way o ...

, and was commercially released in summer 2013. In 2013, Sisson and Ohs were jointly named one of ''Filmmaker'''s "25 New Faces of Independent Film". That same year, they were working on '' Everything Beautiful Is Far Away'', a "microbudget narrative project"; at the 2017

LA Film Festival The LA Film Festival was an annual film festival that was held in Los Angeles, California, and usually took place in June. It showcased independent, international, feature, documentary and short films, as well as web series, music videos, episod ...

, it won the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award.

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