The Juniper Tree (film)
The Juniper Tree is a 1990 Icelandic black-and-white medieval fantasy drama film directed and written by Nietzchka Keene.
Based on the fairy tale "The Juniper Tree" collected by the Brothers Grimm, it stars a small cast of five actors: Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Valdimar Örn Flygenring and Geirlaug Sunna Þormar.
The film was selected to compete for the Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
Nietzchka Keene
Professor Nietzchka Keene (1952–2004) was an American film director and writer best known for "The Juniper Tree", a feature film shot in Iceland, and starring the Icelandic singer Björk in her first film role.
She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the spring of 2004 and died, aged 52, on October 20, 2004.
She taught film making and editing in the University of Wisconsin–Madison until her death.
She was born in 1952 and raised near Boston, Massachusetts.
She received her BA in 1975 in Germanic linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her Master of Fine Arts in film production from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1979.
While at UCLA she served as a research assistant in Old Icelandic language and linguistics under Dr. Jesse Byock.
Keene worked in various capacities in the film industry in Los Angeles while attending graduate school, including positions as a recordist for a sound studio, a dialogue editor in a post-production house, a projectionist, and a re-recording mixer at UCLA.
She produced three short films as a graduate student – "Friends" (1977), "Still" (1978) and "Hinterland" (1983).
In 1986 after returning from her Fulbright year she wrote the script for "The Juniper Tree" and returned to shoot the film in 1987 on location in Iceland.
It was the first film to star the well-known singer and actress Björk, in the role of a young child in a story based on a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm.
She won a Verna Fields Memorial Scholarship from UCLA in 1987 for editing "The Juniper Tree", completing it in 1989.
It has been screened in more than 23 festivals and invitational events around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival, the Harvard Film Archive, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
It won the Prix du Public at the Festival des Films des Femmes de Montreal in 1990 and the First Prize for First Film at the Troia International Film Festival in Troia, Portugal in 1991.
She produced a short film, "Aves", in 1994, with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the University of Miami, which used innovative animation techniques to illuminate the spiritual state of a cloistered nun.
This can again be seen in her second feature film, "Heroine of Hell", which was funded by a grant from the Independent Television Service, a PBS-backed production initiative launched in the early 1990s to develop innovative creative work for public television.
She shot "Heroine of Hell", a narrative combining medieval iconography with a present-day storyline and starring Catherine Keener and Dermot Mulroney, on location in Miami, completing it in 1995.
It was distributed via PBS to member stations in 1996.
A full-length script, "Sleeping Beauty", was optioned by an independent filmmaker in Los Angeles in 1991.
Keene had two projects in progress at the time of her death.
One, a script entitled "Belle", was based on the true story of a female serial killer, Belle Gunness, in La Porte, Indiana, in the early years of the 20th century.
She had nearly completed a third feature film, "Barefoot to Jerusalem", at the time of her death.
"Barefoot to Jerusalem" is a story of a woman's journey, after her lover's suicide, through a solitary landscape which brings her into battle with the devil.
The film was shot on location in Madison, Wisconsin and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2001 and was in the final stages of post-production at the time of her death.
It has since been completed and was released in 2008.
The Rise of Jennie Cushing
The Rise of Jennie Cushing is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur, produced by Famous Players- Lasky, and distributed by Artcraft Pictures, an affiliate of Paramount Pictures.
The story based upon the novel" The Rise of Jennie Cushing" by Mary Watts and stars Broadway's Elsie Ferguson.
The film marked Ferguson's second motion picture.
It is a lost film.
William Dieterle
William Dieterle( July 15, 1893 – December 9, 1972) was a German- American actor and film director, who emigrated to the United States in 1930 to leave a worsening political situation.
He worked in Hollywood primarily as a director for much of his career, becoming a United States citizen in 1937.
His best- known films include" The Devil and Daniel Webster The Story of Louis Pasteur"( 1936) and" The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
His 1937 film" The Life of Emile Zola" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the second biographical feature to do so.
Portrait of Jennie
Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan.
The film was directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick.
It stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.
At the 21st Academy Awards, it won an Oscar for Best Special Effects( Paul Eagler, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Russell Shearman and Clarence Slifer; Special Audible Effects: Charles L. Freeman and James G. Stewart).
Joseph H. August was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography- Black and White.
Jennie Lena
Jennie Willemstijn known by her stage name of Jennie Lena is a Dutch singer, songwriter.
The Juniper Tree
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Juniper Tree (film)
Juniper Tree  is a Canadian drama film, directed by Micheline Lanctôt and released in 2003.
Based in part on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "The Juniper Tree", the film stars Sylvie Drapeau as Esther, a depressed woman interacting with police officer Laurier (Frédérick De Grandpré) after failing in an attempt to kill herself and her children.
Drapeau received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Genie Awards.
Joseph August
Joseph H. August, A.S.C.( 26 April 1890 – 25 September 1947) was an American cinematographer and co-founder of the American Society of Cinematographers.
His films included" Gunga Din"( 1939) for which he was nominated for Academy Award for Best Cinematography," The Hunchback of Notre Dame"( 1939)," The Devil and Daniel Webster"( 1941), and" Portrait of Jennie"( 1948).
He died in 1947 shortly after completing filming of" Portrait of Jennie".
He received his second Oscar nomination, posthumously, for this film.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.

Question: Do both directors of films The Juniper Tree (Film) and Portrait Of Jennie have the same nationality?
Answer: yes