JENNIFER VARENCHIK
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Jennifer Varenchik (she/her) is a writer, director, and producer who started as an actress. Jennifer moved to Los Angeles from the San Francisco Bay Area (Danville, CA) to study acting at The Groundlings and The Stella Adler Academy of Acting.
Jennifer has completed 10 short films to date, two of which have been nominated for awards (“Crossers” (2019) Best Scare, Independent Horror Movie Awards, “In Our Own Hands” (2021) Best Live Short, 46th Annual American Indian Film Festival). Her shorts have screened at several Indigenous film festivals, as well as in Canada (Sâkêwêwak Storytellers Film Festival, Dreamspeakers Film Festival) and at mainstream festivals (Indie Short Fest Los Angeles, Copa Shorts, AZ, Mindfield Film Festival, NM). Jennifer moved to O’ahu in 2019 and attended Creative Lab Hawaii’s Indigenous Storytellers Lab. She went on to win Hawaii Filmmaker Collective’s (HFC) January 2021 Pitch Contest. With the support of HFC, Jennifer was able to complete her proof of concept short “In Our Own Hands. Her goal is to make her feature script by the same name. Jennifer is working to normalize seeing Indigenous faces in film, and on TV, within her lifetime. She is a proud member of the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona. |