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Jenny Bowen
Film director Jenny Bowen has offered a limited output, but her work has won praise and awards at numerous film festivals including the 1982 Grand Jury Prize at the US (Sundance) Film Festival for "Street Music," her take on the elderly being dispossessed by "progress." Bowen's artistic inclinations came early in her native San Francisco. She wrote her first novel, "The Kingdom of the Kaleidoscope," an L Frank Baum-esque fantasy, at age 16, and went on to study creative writing at San Francisco State College. But acting became a lure, and Bowen began performing in regional theater productions in California and the Northwest, including at the famed American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and at San Diego's Old Globe.