Kirsten Johnson

Director Kirsten Johnson at the Miami Film Festival presentation of CAMERAPERSON

Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer.

Her film credits include Derrida (2002), a documentary on French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the documentary Darfur Now (2006),[1] and Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)[2] which won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary.

Her most recent works are The Oath (2010) and Citizenfour (2014),[3] both directed by Laura Poitras. The Oath is about Osama bin Laden's driver, Abu Jandal, for which Johnson won an award from Sundance.[4][5] Citizenfour concerns Edward Snowden and his revelations about the NSA. Johnson's Cameraperson won Sheffield Doc/Fest's Grand Jury Award in 2016.[6]

Johnson is a 1987 graduate of Brown University. Her 1999 film Innocent Until Proven Guilty examined the numbers of African American men in the U.S. criminal justice system.

References

  1. ↑ http://emol.org/film/archives/darfurnow/filmmakers.html
  2. ↑ http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/nonflash/about.htm
  3. ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/movies/07oath.html
  4. ↑ http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/F2W4RBks3-G/2010+Sundance+Film+Festival+Oath+Portraits/84OXbMqXHHY/Kirsten+Johnson
  5. ↑ http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/films/oath/oath.presskit.pdf
  6. ↑ "Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson wins Sheffield Doc/Fest grand prize". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-06-17.

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