Mary Jo Andres Buscemi was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1954. She however died on January 6, 2019. She was an American filmmaker, choreographer and artist. Jo Andres has won awards for Black Kites.

This 1996 film aired on PBS and many film festivals including Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, London and Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. She also directed music and arts videos. She also did film performance works.

As a choreographer, she was a dance consultant to Wooster Group. Jo Andres used to stay around leading universities, museums and art colonies, which included Yaddo, and The Rockefeller Study Center in Italy.  And on her website, one would find series of cyanotype photographs that she created.

In 1987, she got married to actor, Steve Buscemi. Three years after their marriage, they had a son Lucian. Andres died from encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis. This is a medical condition where there is an enclosure of faeces within a thickened fibrocollagenous peritoneal membrane. This results in recurrent episodes of bowel obstruction.