Lanterna is a Vermont-based film and video production company established by Jesse Kreitzer. Specializing in 35mm and 16mm production, and working in both narrative and documentary modes, Kreitzer’s films explore rural life, folk cultures, oral histories, and traditions. His work has received Oscar®-qualifying and regional Emmy® awards, and screened at galleries, museums, and festivals worldwide including The National Gallery of Art, Museum of the Moving Image, Biografilm, Raindance, Camden, and Oldenburg.

Kreitzer holds an MFA in Cinema and Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, and a BA in Visual & Media Arts from Emerson College. He is the former Executive Director of the Bijou Cinema, the longest-running, student-led arthouse in the United States. During his tenure, he oversaw its merger with FilmScene to develop of a new, state-of-the-art nonprofit cinema in downtown Iowa City. Kreitzer has received production support from the LEF Foundation, Kodak, AARP, National Arts Strategies, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Vermont Arts Council with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in southern Vermont where he spends his free time restoring a historic one-room schoolhouse. Rate Sheet I CV

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

2022
Press Release, LEF Foundation Announces $45,000 in Grants
Brattleboro Reformer, Students Learn the Real Deal
2021
Vermont Biz, VAC Issues Creation Grants to 23 Outstanding Artists
Vermont Arts Council, Strategic Action Planning (Advisor)
2018
PBS, Behind the Lens: Black Canaries
MNFF, Filmmaker Forum: Jesse Kreitzer
Film Threat, Black Canaries
Directors Notes, Black Canaries by Jesse Kreitzer
Backpacker Guide to Creativity in VT, The Vision of Black Canaries
Jackson Free Press, Haunted by Black Canaries
2017
Vermont Business Magazine, VSO Made in Vermont Tour 2017
The Commons, A Winning Combination
Take Magazine, Jesse Kreitzer: Truth in Filmmaking I PDF
Seven Days, Vermont Filmmaker to Create Film on Elder Care I PDF
2016
Little Village, UI Film Grad Wins Back-to-Back Grand Jury Prizes
Seven Days, Newbies and Stars at the Middlebury Film Fest
Boston Globe, Previewing the Woods Hole Film Festival at 25
2015
Iowa Alumni Magazine, Letters to the Editor
Iowa Alumni Magazine, Feature: Black Canaries
Little Village, Mining Family History
Little Village, Kreitzer Unearths The Past
Atlanta Film Festival, Monthly Blog
Boston Globe, Are There Contenders in the Glovebox?
2014
Boston Globe, Indie Spirit in Woods Hole
Iowa City Press Citizen, Inspired by Ancestors
Seven Days, Canaries in a Cinematic Coal Mine
Daily Iowan, Mining Cinema
The Commons, Driven to Tell Stories
The Artery WBUR Boston NPR®, Best of the IFFB
Iowa Alumni Magazine, The Future of Film
Iowa Now, Making a Scene Downtown
2011
Brattleboro Reformer, Home is Where the Art Is
NewtonTAB, NewTV Producer Confronts Grief
Imagine Magazine, Make the Wake