Kara Miller
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Kara Miller (born 1974 [1]) is a writer, director and presenter working in film and television.
Miller was born in Jamaica and educated in Jamaica and later in Barbados at Harrison College high school. At 16, she went to Atlantic College and then on to Oxford University (BA Hons Jurispudence).
Miller's film directing credits [2] include: Nobody The Great (2007 – Winner of Cinequest Film Festival’s Viewers’ Voice Audience Award for ‘Best Feature Film’); her award winning short films (Cheese Makes You Dream, Elephant Palm Tree and How to Make Friends) have sold to broadcasters such as HBO and the BBC and have screened at film festivals around the world including Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival and London Film Festival.
Her writing credits include: Lolapalooza, a greenlit feature in development with Working Title Films; Boo! (BBC) and Jim Jam & Sunny (ITV). Kara also has numerous writing credits in (theatre [3]) and BBC Radio 4 – her most recent piece for theatre / BBC Radio 4 Letting Yourself Go (White Open Spaces) ran for 3 weeks at the Soho Theatre, was broadcast in 2007 on BBC Radio 4 and was nominated for a 2007 South Bank Show Award (Pentabus Theatre – White Open Spaces).
She won the 2003 Hitchcock Award, the Screen Nation ‘Best Emerging Talent’ award and was shortlisted for the 2003 BBC’s New Filmmaker Award.
Kara has appeared on several shows including Channel 4’s 50 Films To See Before You Die and most recently on Trailblazers.
