Rebecca Miller is an Independent Spirit and Gotham Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker who has written and directed seven feature films: ANGELA (1995), winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy and Cinematography Award, as well as the Gotham Award; PERSONAL VELOCITY (2002), winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Cinematography Award, as well as the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award; THE BALLAD OF JACK AND ROSE (2005); THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (2009) ; MAGGIE’S PLAN (2015); ARTHUR MILLER: WRITER (2017) a documentary for HBO; and SHE CAME TO ME (2023). Several of her films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Miller is also the screenwriter of the feature film PROOF (2005) adapted from the stage play.
She is also a painter and author of the short story collections PERSONAL VELOCITY (2001) and TOTAL (2022) and the novels THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (2009) and JACOB’S FOLLY (2013).
Books
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Total
From Dublin to Martha’s Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a technologically infected near future th...
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Jacob's Folly
In eighteenth-century Paris, Jacob Cerf is a Jewish street peddler burdened by a disastrous young marriage but determine...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
What part of our selves do we hide away in order to have a stable, prosperous life?
Pippa Lee has just such a life in p...
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A Woman Who
A Woman Who is a delightful collection of clever, almost surreal drawings revealing women feeling all the strange and sp...
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Personal Velocity
A Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Rebecca Miller's powerful debut, Personal Velocity, is the basis for her Sundance F...
