Joanna Lipper is an author, filmmaker and photographer. She runs Sea Wall Entertainment, a company dedicated to the research, development and production of books and films.   Recent News   |   Reviews  |  Photography

Ms. Lipper's debut feature film Little Fugitive was released by Cinema Libre Studio in September 2008. Lipper's first documentary, Inside Out: Portraits of Children premiered on the Sundance Channel and received the Hollywood Discovery Award.

Her second documentary, Growing Up Fast, was distinguished by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the outstanding short documentaries of 1999. The film focused on teen mothers and was the inspiration for her acclaimed book, Growing Up Fast. Its release marked the beginning of her involvement in grassroots activism and educational outreach efforts in the arena of teen pregnancy and parenthood prevention.

Sea Wall Entertainment is developing a slate of feature film projects that Joanna Lipper is attached to direct. These include:

Disorder of Your Name ("El Desorden de Tu Nombre"), based on the novel by international bestselling Spanish author, Juan Jose Millas, winner of the 2007 Prix Planete, Spain's highest literary prize.

A Girl From Zanzibar, based on the novel by Roger King

Ms. Lipper holds a B.A from Harvard in Literature and Film, and an M.Sc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology from University College London and The Anna Freud Centre. She is currently a fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership.

From September 2008-June 2010, Ms. Lipper will be in residence at Harvard University where she is a Sheila_Biddle_Ford_Foundation_Fellow at the W.E.B Du Bois Institute. She recently travelled to Zanzibar where she completed two photo essays, Seaweed Farmers and Women in Zanzibar as well as three multimedia slideshows. Ms. Lipper's public_appearances include lectures on a range of issues relating to psychology, sociology and film.