Name Kirsten Johnson Role Filmmaker | Education Brown University | |
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Awards Sundance Film Festival Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography Movies Citizenfour, The Oath, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, The Invisible War Similar People Laura Poitras, Katy Scoggin, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, Kirby Dick | ||
Doc nyc visionaries tribute laura poitras accepted by citizenfour cinematographer kirsten johnson
Kirsten Johnson (born 1965) is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. She is a faculty member at NYU.
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- Doc nyc visionaries tribute laura poitras accepted by citizenfour cinematographer kirsten johnson
- Kirsten johnson discusses the real costs of being a freelance documentary filmmaker
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Her film credits include Derrida (2002), a documentary on French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the documentary Darfur Now (2006), and Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) which won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary.
Her most recent works are The Oath (2010) and Citizenfour (2014), both directed by Laura Poitras. The Oath is about Osama bin Laden's driver, Abu Jandal, for which Johnson won an award from Sundance. Citizenfour concerns Edward Snowden and his revelations about the NSA. Johnson's Cameraperson won Sheffield Doc/Fest's Grand Jury Award in 2016.
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.
Kirsten johnson discusses the real costs of being a freelance documentary filmmaker
