John and Janet with Kevin Smith
Dolly's Book Store, 1996
Park City, Utah
John and Janet Pierson
Telluride, 1983
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JANET PIERSON, co-president of Grainy Pictures, has partnered with her husband John Pierson
professionally since 1986. In 2002-2003, they showed free movies at the world's most remote
cinema in Taveuni, Fiji. She was co-creator, executive producer and occasional segment
director of their magazine-format cable television series, Split Screen. Earlier projects
include staging the Cold Spring Film Workshop and serving as producer reps and/or investors
in over two dozen original American independent features like She's Gotta Have It, Roger &
Me, Slacker, and Clerks. From 1981 to 1986 she was assistant director of NYC's Film Forum.
In 1977-1979 she ran Canyon Cinema Cooperative in S.F. She attended Hampshire College,
graduating with a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1977. Having recently
relocated to Austin with her family, Janet is now on the board of the Austin Film Society.
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