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Vivian Kleiman

Vivian Kleiman is a Peabody Award winning documentary filmmaker. Other honors include a National Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Research (producer/research director) and an Academy Award nomination for Documentary Short (executive producer).

Kleiman directed and produced the feature documentary [https://nostraightlinesthefilm.com/ No Straight Lines] (2021), which chronicles the lives of five queer comic book artists (Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Howard Cruse, Rupert Kinnard, and Mary Wings) as they journey from the margins of the DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance. The film premiered in June 2021 at Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and AFI DOCS. It also took home the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize at LA's Outfest, and the NLGJA: Association of LGBTQ Journalists Award for Excellence in Documentary Journalism. No Straight Lines was broadcast on the National PBS award-winning series Independent Lens January 2023.

In 2019, Kleiman was awarded a Eureka Fellowship of the Fleishhacker Foundation for visual artists of all media.

Also an educator, she served as Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University's Graduate Program in Documentary Film and Video Production from 1995–2004.

Kleiman was a long time collaborator with Black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs. They founded [http://marlonriggs.com/signifyin-works/ Signifyin' Works] in 1991, which creates and distributes films about the experiences of African Americans. Directed by Riggs, their 1992 film Color Adjustment screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received the International Documentary Association's IDA Award, the Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians and the George Foster Peabody Award in 1993.

In 2024 she created outthevote.com - a social media campaign designed to encourage queer students on college campuses to vote.

Currently, Kleiman is completing a short film deconstructing a deeply entrenched legend about Denmark during World War II that have masked a more nuanced wartime experience - both its bravery and its blemishes. Provided by Wikipedia Read More