Jan Oxenberg (born 1950) is an American film producer, director, editor, and

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. She is known for her work in

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feminist films and in television.

Career

Oxenberg was born in

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, New York in 1950. She attended

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for two years where she was active in the experimental college, a collaborative, co-living, and self-directed schooling experiment between Barnard and

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starting in 1968. Oxenberg transferred to

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(CalArts) and initially she studied feminist art with Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro, but later transferring into the CalArts film school. In 1972, Oxenberg was one of the many participants in Womanhouse, the first feminist art installation and performance art (specifically within the art pieces - Three Women, Birth Trilogy, Necco Wafers). In the 1970s, she was involved with ELF (education liberation front), a traveling educational resource, carrying information and books on liberation movements, racism, ecology and more. Around 1974, she was active in producing a radio series called "Lesbian Sisters" on KPFK Los Angeles. She has also worked as a producer and writer on ''

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''. Other credits include '' Nothing Sacred'', '' Cold Case'', '' Kidnapped'', '' In Plain Sight'', and '' Chicago Hope''. Since 2013, Oxenberg has been adapting James Ellroy's memoir, '' My Dark Places'' for a screenplay and film production by Myriad Pictures.

Personal life

Oxenberg is Jewish, and openly lesbian. Oxenberg has been out as a lesbian since the early portion of the second wave feminist movement. For many years, she dated musician Sonia Wieder-Atherton.

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