Salon: A Candid Conversation with Karyn Kusama

You are invited to a Salon hosted by the Process Artist Lab featuring director Karyn Kusama.

In this rare opportunity, we sit down with Ms. Kusama to discuss her work, life and personal insight into directing and filmmaking. If you’ve ever encountered Ms. Kusama, much like her work, you’ll be surprised and taken with her rawness, honesty, principle and wit.

We ask you to join and also be an integral part of this conversation.

Light food and drinks will be served.

Date: This event is now closed.
Venue: Private Home in Los Angeles

About Karyn Kusama

Karyn Kusama studied film and television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the undergraduate program.

She wrote and directed her first feature film, “Girlfight”, in 1999. The film won the Director’s Prize and shared the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, Karyn directed the science fiction love story “Aeon Flux” for Paramount Pictures. Her third feature was the comedy-horror film “Jennifer’s Body”, written by Diablo Cody, and released by Twentieth Century Fox.

Karyn’s latest feature, “The Invitation”, is a psychological suspense film that won the Grand Prize at the Sitges Film Festival, among other awards. “The Invitation” was released in April 2016 by Drafthouse Films.

She recently directed a short film entitled “Her Only Living Son”, part of the upcoming Magnolia release “XX”. “XX”, a four-film anthology of horror shorts directed by women, will be released in the winter of 2016.

She also directs for television, working on such shows as AMC’s “Halt and Catch Fire”, Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle”, and Showtime’s “Billions”.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, screenwriter Phil Hay, and their son Michio.