Jennie Livingston (born February 24, 1962) is an American director best known for the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning.

Biography

Livingston was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Los Angeles, where she attended Beverly Hills High School. She graduated from Yale University in 1983, where she studied photography, drawing, and painting with a minor in English Literature. Livingston is the niece of the late film director Alan J. Pakula, who initially warned her away from film directing, but later proved encouraging. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.