Jane Weinstock

Jane Weinstock is a director and writer based in New York City. Her most recent film, Three Birthdays, received the NYWIFT narrative director award at the Woodstock Film Festival and is out now in theaters. It also won the best feature director award at the LA Femme International Film Festival. In 2013 she directed The Moment, a psychological thriller starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alia Shawkat and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The film premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival. Her feature directorial debut, Easy (2003), starring Marguerite Moreau, Brían F. O’Byrne, and Naveen Andrews, was an official selection at The Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. Weinstock also co-directed Sigmund Freud’s Dora, a short film that showed at The Berlin International Film Festival and the Whitney Museum. She attended the Sundance Director’s Lab. In addition to directing, Weinstock has written on film, art, and feminism. She has a masters in Cinema Studies from NYU and a BA from Princeton.

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Sex and the Movies

By Jane Weinstock | February 27, 2025

Sex and the Movies

Writer-director Jane Weinstock, whose new movie Three Birthdays is out now, explores the depiction of sexuality on screen.