Joe Swanberg
- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Joe Swanberg was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1981. He moved around
quite a bit growing up, even spending two years on an island in the
Pacific Ocean named Kwajalein. He studied film production at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale, where he developed an interest in
emerging video technology and the creative possibilities of the
Internet. He became an avid web designer in school, and did this to
make money while he financed his first film, Kissing on the Mouth (2005). He also worked
for the Chicago International Film Festival as "Travel Coordinator,"
though he had no formal experience with this prior to accepting the
job.
