Jessica Oreck
{{Short description|American filmmaker}}
Jessica Oreck is an American naturalist and documentary filmmaker.[https://scienceandfilm.org/people/583/jessica-oreck Jessica Oreck]{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jun/30/beetle-queen-conquers-tokyo-film-review |title=Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo – review |author=Peter Bradshaw |date=June 30, 2011 |work=The Guardian |accessdate=January 31, 2012}}
She studied filmmaking, and biology in school and then she started working at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. After some time she established the one-person Myriapod production company for her films, as she said, "as a way for me to make films without having to put my name on everything".Christopher Reed, [https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/jessica-oreck/ A Conversation with Jessica Oreck (ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES)], July 27, 2022
In 2021 Oreck launched a tiny museum "Office of Collecting, and Design". In 2024 she decided to expand it to a "traveling museum" in a trailer.Scott Macaulay, [https://filmmakermagazine.com/126789-jessica-oreck-kickstarts-a-traveling-museum/ Jessica Oreck Kickstarts a Traveling Museum], Filmmaker, July 29, 2024
Filmography
- Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2008). It was her first film; nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2010, received the Spotlight Award (2010) from the Cinema Eye Honors[https://cinemaeyehonors.com/history/ A Brief History of Cinema Eye]
- Venus (2011, short)
- Mysteries of Vernacular (2012) A series of shorts for TED-Ed about the origins of some words.[https://ed.ted.com/mysteries-of-vernacular Mysteries of Vernacular The origins of odd and interesting words]
- Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys (2013)[http://arcticcowboys.com/index.html Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys]
- The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014) [http://thevanquishing.com/home.html The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga]
- One Man Dies a Million Times (2019). The film is retelling true story of the world's first seed bank, the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, during the Siege of Leningrad, during which scientists preserved a massive inventory of edible seeds in the name of biodiversity while facing starvation.{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2022/07/one-man-dies-a-million-times-review-1234745499/ |title=‘One Man Dies a Million Times’ Review: A Haunting Portrait of Preservation at the End of the World |author=David Ehrlich |date=July 27, 2022 |work=Indiewire |accessdate=August 2, 2022}}
- Memoirs of Vegetation (2020, short)
References
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External links
- {{home page|https://myriapodproductions.com/|Myriapod Productions}}
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