Kirsten Johnson

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Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Her film credits include Derrida, the 2002 documentary on French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the 2006 documentary Darfur Now , and the 2008 Pray The Devil Back to Hell, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary. Her most recent work is The Oath , directed by Laura Poitras, about Osama bin Laden's driver, Abu Jandal, for which Johnson won an award from Sundance.

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.

External links

Kirsten Johnson at the Internet Movie Database
New York Times Review of The Oath
Hollywood Reporter Review of The Oath
Interview in Art of the Documentary (2005)
The Deadline, 2004
Center for Social Media interview, 2003

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Name	Johnson, Kirsten
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Short description	American film director
Date of birth	1965
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