Nietzchka Keene
Producer
Nietzchka Keene was a distinguished filmmaker and professor of communications at the University of Wisconsin. She wrote, directed, and produced three feature-length films. Her first, The Juniper Tree, was set and filmed in Iceland and starred singer-actress Bjork in her first film role. Her second film, Heroine of Hell, funded by an ITVS grant and aired on PBS, starred Catherine Keener, Wendy Phillips, and Dermott Mulroney. At the time of her death in 2004, she had nearly finished production on her third film, Barefoot to Jerusalem, set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.