Southern Circuit - Jen White

Southern Circuit - Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Jen White became a camera junkie at the age of twelve while earning a photography badge in Girl Scouts. After three years working gigs as a babysitter to feed her ever-growing film stock habit, she spent a few hours watching a movie she wasn't old enough to see and her life has never been the same since. After graduating from Columbia College - Chicago with a B.A. in film production in 1999, Jen moved back to her home town of Austin, Texas, where she works primarily as a cinematographer. She has lensed multiple feature films, documentaries, and award-winning shorts and music videos. Her work has aired on A&E, TLC, Discovery, MTV Europe, and PBS, as well as festivals around the world. When she's not shooting projects for other directors, Jen pulls double duty as director and cinematographer for music videos, live concerts, short films, and the occasional documentary or commercial. She is currently preparing her next feature film, a collaboration with her mentor, to be shot in downtown Chicago in 2010. Between Floors is Jen’s feature film debut. The film examines the human condition through a uniquely claustrophobic lens, intercutting between five stuck elevators and the people trapped inside them. Each elevator becomes an existential purgatory, forcing its occupants to not only confront their isolation, but themselves and each other in varied and unexpected ways. Taking place entirely in five elevators, Between Floors is as unusual as it is arresting, blurring lines of genre, tone and form while its characters are stripped bare—trapped, alone, waiting—and we get to watch what happens. Awkwardly funny, numbingly tragic, anxiously crushing, and ultimately liberating, the film features a colorful variety of characters stripped of control, slowed to a halt, and forced to reflect... until the doors open.