Jamie Babbit

Birth Name:

Jamie Merrill Babbit

Birth Place:

Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States

Profession

Director, Producer, Script department, Writer

Won a Sundance Film Festival Honorable Mention for Short Filmmaking for "Stuck" in 2002
Won a SXSW Competition Award for Best Feature Film for "Itty Bitty Titty Committee" in 2007
Won two Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Awards, one for Best Short Film for "Stuck" in 2002 and one for Best Feature for "Itty Bitty Titty Committee" in 2007
Began working as a director on the short film "Frog Crossing" in 1996, and was also a script monitor on the film "Kingpin" that same year
Quote: "(On being a lesbian filmmaker): "Some of my job as a director is encouraging people to embrace the truest, most simple, vulnerable part of themselves, and to be a good director you have to, to a certain degree, be able to do that within yourself․""
Quote: "(On directing TV): "You're the guest of honor․ But there are all these family secrets that no one tells you about until you get there․․․and you're like 'I didn't know grandpa was a drunk and we're not supposed to talk about it․'""
Best known as the director of the films "But I'm a Cheerleader" and "The Quiet," as well as several episodes of the TV series "Gilmore Girls․"
Wrote and directed the films "Frog Crossing" in 1996, "Sleeping Beauties" and "But I'm a Cheerleader" in 1999, and "Itty Bitty Titty Committee" in 2007
Appeared in front of the camera on one occasion in 1992 as Julie in the short film "Aisle Six․"

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