Joni DeRouchie

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Joni DeRouchie (born 1973) is a Portland, Oregon-area filmmaker living in Vancouver, Washington, United States.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

A self-taught writer, director and photographer, DeRouchie began painting in high school and progressed to photography due to the frustration she felt at the inability to capture what she saw. After a couple years, photography progressed into a desire to capture what she saw in moving form, including stage direction and film.

[edit] Film career

She first received major attention as a 2001 Project Greenlight semi-finalist with her feature length script The Frank Principle. In 2002, she directed a 20-minute short film adaptation of scenes from The Frank Principle which then premiered at the Split.ID Film Festival in Hollywood in January of 2003.

In 2003, DeRouchie directed Rick Emerson's one-man stage show Bigger Than Jesus: The Diary of a Rock and Roll Fan. It debuted to a sold-out, standing-room-only audience that summer and was later returned for a successful run in 2004.

She combined with Rick Emerson again on a short thriller called Remote Control, which played in 2004 at both the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles and the Portland Underground Film Festival.

In 2005, DeRouchie worked with Rick Emerson in the DVD production of Bigger Than Jesus, which was performed at Portland State University's Lincoln Hall. Later in 2005, she produced a two-part television pilot with Rick Emerson called Rock Roundtable which aired on a local station. She also produced the documentary I Was a Teenage Dirtbag.

She directed her first music video in 2006 for the gothic metal band Nicodemus.

[edit] Other Projects

DeRouchie had been rumored to be collaborating with Rick Emerson on a secret project, since early in 2007. This project turned out to be the band The Wonderstrucks, fronted by Emerson.

Christmas of 2007 saw another DeRouchie and Emerson collaboration when they wrote and produced a live radio play called Ebenezer? I Barely Knew Her!. It was first broadcast on CBS Radio on December 21st and re-broadcast the following week.

[edit] Filmography

  • The Frank Principle (2001)
  • Remote Control (2004)
  • Bigger Than Jesus: The Diary of a Rock & Roll Fan (2005)
  • I Was a Teenage Dirtbag (2005)
  • Rock Roundtable (2005)
  • Nicodemus: Next in Nocturne (2006)

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