Catherine Jelski worked on a memoir of her years as an American teenager living in East Berlin in the 1970s. Her feature film, The Young Unknowns, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in an art-house run in the U.S. in 2003.
Catherine Jelski
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction, Film/Video
Disciplines:
Literature – nonfiction, Film/Video
Based in Los Angeles, CA
Residencies: 2004, 2012
Studios
Calderwood
Catherine Jelski worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…