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Johanna Demetrakas

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Johanna Demetrakas
Born1937
OccupationFilmmaker

Johanna Demetrakas is an American independent filmmaker and television director known for documentaries like Womanhouse and Right Out of History. She has worked as a professor at Cal Arts and USC.[1]

Career

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She attended Rhode Island School of Design, where she majored in Illustration. In 1971, Demetrakas co-directed the doc Celebration at Big Sur, which captured performances by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and Dorothy Morrison at the Big Sur Folk Festival. The film was acquired by 20th Century Fox.[2] She followed that up with Womanhouse, a doc about the feminist art installation at Cal Arts.[3]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Johanna Demetrakas | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  2. ^ "Acquires 'Big Sur'". The Salt Lake Tribune. 19 Apr 1971. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  3. ^ Gross, Linda (11 Oct 1975). "Documentaries of Woman Artists". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
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