Kirsten Johnson
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 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
- ↑ http://emol.org/film/archives/darfurnow/filmmakers.html
- ↑ http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/nonflash/about.htm
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/movies/07oath.html
- ↑ http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/F2W4RBks3-G/2010+Sundance+Film+Festival+Oath+Portraits/84OXbMqXHHY/Kirsten+Johnson
- ↑ http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/films/oath/oath.presskit.pdf
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