Jenni Olson

Jenni Olson is an American lesbian filmmaker, film historian, and archivist who is one of the foremost authorities on LGBTQ+ film history. She is known for The Royal Road (2015), a meditative essay film about lesbian longing, California, and film history, and for her decades of work archiving, writing about, and advocating for the preservation of LGBTQ+ cinema. She has contributed to numerous film festivals, curated retrospectives of queer cinema, and been a bridge between the history of queer filmmaking and its contemporary inheritors.