Miscellaneous Crew:
1.
Benny & Joon (1993) (script supervisor)
2.
Night on Earth (1991) (script supervisor: New
York)
3.
“Law & Order” (script supervisor) (1
episode, 1990) Poison Ivy (1990) TV episode (script supervisor) (as Lisa
Kreuger)
4.
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) (script supervisor)
5.
King of New York (1990) (script supervisor)
6.
Mystery Train (1989) (script supervisor)
7.
“Monsters” (script supervisor) (4 episodes,
1988-1989) La Strega (1989) TV episode (script supervisor) Glim-Glim (1989) TV
episode (script supervisor) The Legacy (1988) TV episode (script supervisor) My
Zombie Lover (1988) TV episode (script supervisor)
8.
Down by Law (1986) (assistant to producer)
Director:
1.
Committed (2000/I)
2.
Manny & Lo (1996)
3.
Best Offer (1993)
Writer:
1.
Committed (2000/I) (written by)
2.
Manny & Lo (1996)
3.
Best Offer (1993) (written by)
LISA KRUEGER (writer/director) grew up in the suburbs
of San Francisco and attended the University of California at Berkeley. In her
Junior year she was one of three undergraduates to be invited to the university’s
graduate-level Paris Film Program. After her year in Paris, Krueger returned to
Berkeley, where she wrote an honors thesis on film music.
After graduation, she returned to Paris, where she
continued her studies under the direction of Christian Metz at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and taught English at the University of
Paris and at the American Center for Students and Artists. She began
experimenting with the American Center’s extensive video equipment, and was
commissioned by the Center to create a series of video vignettes for use in its
classrooms.
Moving to New York City, Krueger worked briefly as an
assistant to the video curator of the Museum of Modern Art, and then became a
production manager for Academy Award-winning director Zbigniew Rybczynski. She
also line-produced the American segments for Alain Tanner’s “La Vallée Fantôme”
and Pierre Granier Deferre’s “La Couleur de Vent.”
Eager to move from production to directing, Krueger
took up script supervision, or continuity, as a kind of “earn while your learn”
film school. As a script supervisor, she worked closely with such directors as
Jim Jarmusch (on “Mystery Train” and “Night on Earth”), Abel Ferrara (“King of
New York”) and James Ivory (“Mr. and Mrs. Bridge”), and was able to absorb
first-hand the creative and technical aspects of movie-making.
She then wrote, directed and co-edited “Best Offer,”
a half hour short described as a “coming of age story about a young girl’s
transition from four-legged love objects (horses) to two-legged ones (boys).”
Featuring cinematography by her brother Tom and production design by her
brother Mathew, “Best Offer” premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and
went on to win awards at the San Francisco Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival,
Houston Worldfest, Oberhausen and the CINE Golden Eagle, among others. “Best
Offer” was also licensed for numerous television showings around the world.
Krueger’s first feature-length screenplay, “Manny
& Lo,” was honored by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute when it was
chosen for its 1994 June Filmmakers and Writers Lab. As a “Sundance Fellow,”
Lisa was invited to rehearse, shoot on video and edit scenes from “Manny &
Lo” with the actors of her choice (among them Mary Kay Place) over the course of
four weeks in the mountains of Utah. Seasoned filmmakers/advisors were on hand
to offer feedback, including Robert Redford, Arthur Penn, Alan Pakula, Paul
Brickman, Richard Pierce, Morgan Freeman, Sally Field, and others. The
institute also organized a stage reading of “Manny & Lo” with Morgan
Freeman narrating. (Other films developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab
include “Reservoir Dogs,” “Impromptu,” “Fresh,” and “I Like It Like That.”)
Lisa Krueger currently divides her time among Los
Angeles, San Francisco and New York.
