directing,
producing,
documentaries,
features,
shorts,
music videos
trans filmmaker and visual media artist based in Brooklyn, NY. collaboration and play are paramount to my work.
recent credits include Emmy® winning Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power and Sundance 2024’s POWER.
graduate of Bard College and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
get in touch
via
email jztinneny@gmail.com
instagram @jizzyjtizzy
email jztinneny@gmail.com
instagram @jizzyjtizzy
music video
- a music video shot on cinema mirrorless scanned to vhs for trans pop artist kelpy cathedral
- Dir. Jz Tinneny and alex burholt
- Starring Kelpy Cathedral and Trinity Noone
- Cinematography by Jz Tinneny and Alex Burholt
- Movement direcition by Kelpy Cathedral Produced by Jz Tinneny
- Edited by Alex Burholt
- Associate Produced by Parker Conrad
- Dir. Jz Tinneny and alex burholt
post-production
- Set in New York City’s DIY fashion world, an aspiring designer becomes obsessed with a famous young influencer. Blending psychological suspense, ritzy satire, and sociocultural critique, The Philosophy of Dress is a subversive thriller about two women and the price of fame.
- Dir. Cyrus Duff
- Produced by Jz Tinneny
sydney LemmonChase Sui WondersAmy Fine Collins- Dir. Cyrus Duff
- a trans rom-com
- A young trans cartoonist - struggling with body dysphoria and creative insecurity - attends a queer art retreat where he must confront unspoken romantic feelings for his best friend and embrace his trans identity to unlock his true artistic voice.
- Dir. Andy Fidoten
- Produced by Jz Tinneny + LIZA Renzulli
Feats of Engineering
directed by Jz Tinneny
cinematography by Cyrus Duff
editing by Peter McCormack
styling by Eva M Nelson
styling assist Regina Munn
costume by Collina Strada
label: Dots Per Inch
cinematography by Cyrus Duff
editing by Peter McCormack
styling by Eva M Nelson
styling assist Regina Munn
costume by Collina Strada
label: Dots Per Inch
post-production
- In this docu-fiction short, a group of retired community theater actors create a casino through a sense-memory workshop and explore the capacities of the workshop’s effect on their own histories, imaginations, and performances.
- Dir. Izzy Leung
- Produced by Jz Tinneny
- Director of Photography Jz Tinneny
Sundance 2024, Netflix
- Driven to contain threats to social order, American policing has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, it can be described by one word: power. A Netflix Documentary.
- Dir., Producer Yance Ford
- A Netflix Documentary Film
- Dir., Producer Yance Ford
Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research: Documentary
- Tribeca Film Festival,
- Camden International Film Festival
- Peacock
- Through first-person accounts and searing archival footage, this is the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County.
- dir. Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhirassociate producer J TINNENYRESEARCHER J TINNENY
Indie Memphis
- In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world.
- dir. Augusta Palmer
- Producer J Tinneny