Rotterdam Lab

Joy Jorgensen

Joy Jorgensen is the lead producer and founder of Killjoy Films. Born in the American South, Joy has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree in screenwriting and directing at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is the recipient of a SAG Award for her work in television and the Media Services Award for excellence in creative producing. Current feature projects include Homebody (dir. Joseph Sackett) which won the Special Jury Award for Emerging Talent at Outfest 2021 and Runner (dir. Marian Mathias, in post-production) which was selected for the 2018 Cannes Cinéfondation Residence, the Torino FeatureLab in 2019 (where it won the Creative Europe Media Prize), and Venice Film Festival’s Production Bridge Market. Joy is based in Berlin and Brooklyn.

Killjoy Films –USA

Killjoy was founded in New York in 2014 and moved to Berlin in 2016. We produce short and feature narrative projects with a focus on new voices and emerging directors from around the globe.

We think a story can and should contain the complexity of what it is to be human and we strive for content that is daring and undeterred by fear of perception. Many of our films exist in the tension between joy and heartbreak, between the generosity of our better natures and the twinge of petty selfishness.

Our films are incise and meandering, profoundly generous and tightly composed, funny and gut-wrenchingly sad. We’ve co-produced films with Germany, Argentina, Portugal, and Scotland. The films have premiered worldwide including festivals such as Sundance, TIFF, Clermont Ferrand, and Cannes.

Projects in development

Calma Chicha by Inés Gowland
Lost Angels by Bette Gordon
Cross Pollination by Joseph Sackett
Bambirak by Zamarin Wahdat

Projects in post-production

Runner by Marian Mathias

Released films

Homebody by Joseph Sackett

 

Joy Jorgensen