Marjorie Sturm

filmmaker/musician

Marjorie Sturm was born in Manhattan and raised in Rockland County. She studied psychology and art at the University of Michigan and then moved out to San Francisco in 1991. She has lived for extended periods in Mexico, Nepal/India, and Israel studying poetry, film, music, and religion. She has worked with the mentally-ill homeless in the Tenderloin on and off for the last ten years. She received her MFA in filmmaking from San Francisco State and completed the award winning (Grand Festival Award for short feature at BV&FF2003) Smoke the Pipe Dream, Honey and Eggs, and Treehouse. She wrote lyrics on The Abstractions Ars Vivende and Novo Navagatio CDs and Muck Roc CD, as well as contributed flute and vocals and lyrics on Ernesto Diaz-Infante's (a key figure in the American underground music scene) Next door to the Jefferson Airplane CD on Imvated Records. She is a co-creator/curator of the Anais Nin Film and Video Diary Festival, and is in the process of making a video diary of her baby's first year. As well, she continues to work on her first feature length script. Pax Recordings has released a DVD compiliation of her work. She recently resumed working on a JT Leroy documentary that began three years ago, and was once aborted.

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