Joanna Lipper is a filmmaker and author. She runs Sea Wall Entertainment, a company dedicated to the research, development and production of books and films. Little Fugitive marks her debut as a feature film director and screenwriter.  Click here for recent news articles about the film and reviews of her book, Growing Up Fast.

Ms. Lipper is attached to direct several projects currently in development. She is working in partnership with manager and producer, Davien Littlefield.

Projects include the following:

A Girl From Zanzibar by Roger King

The Analyst by John Katzenbach

Joanna Lipper is a fellow at the Woodhull Institute.  She 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.

Her 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 published by Picador.

Joanna Lipper serves on the Board of Trustees of The Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She is a member of the Board of Overseers of YIVO at The Center For Jewish History. She serves on the National Advisory Board of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University.

Joanna Lipper is a frequent speaker on national radio and television and at conferences and universities across the country. For more information about speaking engagements, click here.