Jason Livingston

Discipline: Filmmaking

Based In: Buffalo, NY

Year at Millay: 2015

Awards/Honors: Award Winner, Best Documentary Short Film, Buffalo International Film Festival, Buffalo, NY (2021); Artist-in-Residence, Elsewhere Studios, Paonia, CO (2019); Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA (2019); Artist-in-Residence, Mount Lebanon Residency, New Lebanon, NY (2019); Fellow, Image Text Ithaca, Low-residency MFA (now Image Text MFA at Cornell University), Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (2018); Artist-in-Residence, Experimental Television Center, Binghamton, NY (2011, 2007, 2006); First Prize, Jury Award, My Co-op Rocks! Video Contest, National Cooperative Grocers Association, St. Paul, MN (2010); Fellow, Film, Media & New Technology, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2010); Grant Recipient, Community Arts Partnership Grant, Tompkins Chamber, Ithaca, NY (2010); Fellow/Grant Recipient, NYSCA Media Arts Technical Assistance Fund to attend The Flaherty Fellowship, The Flaherty/International Film Seminar, New York, NY (2008, 2007, 2004); Prize Winner, Director's Citation, Black Maria Film Festival, West Orange, NJ (2007, 2005, 2000, 1999); Prize Winner, Jury Prize, New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY (2005); Prize Winner, Best of Iowa, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA (2005); Second Prize, Peripheral Produce, Portland, OR (2001); Award Winner, Artistic Director's Award for Poet of the Cinema, Cinema Texas, Austin, TX (2000), Grant Recipient, Fine Arts Council Grant, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (2000); Fellow/Grant Recipient, Grant-in-Aid, Duke University to attend The Flaherty Fellowship, The Flaherty/International Film Seminar, New York, NY (1999).

Website: https://www.jasonlivingston.net

Jason Livingston is a media artist and filmmaker, film programmer, and writer. His award-winning work has screened widely, including Sheffield, Camden, Rotterdam, Anthology, the Austrian Museum, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Under Foot & Overstory is distributed by the CFMDC, and Lake Affect is available through EAI’s Experimental Television Center collection. Awarded residencies include the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and project support from funders such as the New York State Council on the Arts and the Simons Foundation.

Jason is pursuing a practice-based PhD as a Presidential Fellow with the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Cornell University, and a MA and MFA in Cinema from the University of Iowa. He served as a Trustee with the Flaherty organization from 2017 to 2023.