- Born
- Place
Joyce Chopra
Joyce Chopra 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. 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 her husband, Tom Cole.
As director
Gramercy Stories
Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation
The Last Cowboy
Rip Girls
Murder in a Small Town
Replacing Dad
The Lady in Question
L.A. Johns
Convictions
My Very Best Friend
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
The Disappearance of Nora
The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Baby Snatcher
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story
The Lemon Sisters
Smooth Talk
Music Lessons: The Kodaly Method in the American Classroom
Martha Clarke Light & Dark: A Dancer’s Journal
That Our Children Would Not Die
Sally Garcia and Family
Girls at 12
Clorae and Albie
Matina Horner: Portrait of a Person
Joyce at 34
Marathon
A Happy Mother's Day
