Joyce Chopra
| Joyce Chopra | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 27, 1936 New York City |
| Occupation | Film Director, Producer |
| Spouse(s) | Tom Cole (deceased) |
Joyce Chopra (born October 27, 1936) is an American director and writer of feature films and television. Chopra graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Chopra was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until he died on February 23, 2009, of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood.
Chopra was born in New York City, to Judge Abraham and Tillie Kalina. A few months after her graduation from Brandeis, she and a partner opened a European-style coffee house near Harvard Square at 47 Mt Auburn Street, quickly turning it into a music club (Club 47) where everyone from Joan Baez to Bob Dylan performed. The Club was the subject of 2012 film, "For the Love of the Music," shown at the Boston International Film Festival. Chopra's own film career began with documentary film making in 1963 and gained much recognition by feminist film scholars with her autobiographical documentary Joyce at 34 (1974). The film stars Chopra and examines the affect her pregnancy had on her film making career. The documentary received the American Film Festival Blue Ribbon award. The film is considered an important film for feminist film scholars as the film explores the issues surrounding women when pursuing the creation of a family while also creating a professional career.
Chopra transitioned into fiction film making around the mid-1980s after meeting and working with Tom Cole (writer). One of their first collaborations was a PBS American Playhouse production, Medal of Honor Rag in 1982.
Her first narrative feature-length film Smooth Talk (1985) won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and was adapted by Tom Cole.
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