Colleen Griffen
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Colleen Griffen produced the independent feature film, An Acceptable Loss starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tika Sumpter which was released by IFC Films in January 2019.
Griffen has produced three other feature films-Already Dead (2007) for Sony Pictures, the award-winning Thieves Quartet (1994) for Joe Chappelle, and her feature directorial debut, The Cold and the Quiet (2013), which won both Best Narrative and Best Direction at the Women's Independent Film Festival in L.A. In addition to her feature work, Colleen Griffen also wrote, directed, and produced the mockumentary web series, Boyband, which was acquired by Fullscreen and Audience Network in May of 2016.
A graduate of Northwestern University (M.F.A.) and Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.), Griffen has taught film at both Northwestern and Columbia College in Chicago and continues to serve as a film panelist and lecturer.
Griffen has produced three other feature films-Already Dead (2007) for Sony Pictures, the award-winning Thieves Quartet (1994) for Joe Chappelle, and her feature directorial debut, The Cold and the Quiet (2013), which won both Best Narrative and Best Direction at the Women's Independent Film Festival in L.A. In addition to her feature work, Colleen Griffen also wrote, directed, and produced the mockumentary web series, Boyband, which was acquired by Fullscreen and Audience Network in May of 2016.
A graduate of Northwestern University (M.F.A.) and Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.), Griffen has taught film at both Northwestern and Columbia College in Chicago and continues to serve as a film panelist and lecturer.
