Kitty Green
Kitty Green | |
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.jpg) Green at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| Born | 1984 (age 39–40)[1] |
| Alma mater | Victorian College of the Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, Director, Editor |
| Notable work | Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013) Casting JonBenet (2017) The Assistant (2019) |
Kitty Green is the director of the 2019 film The Assistant,[2][3][4][5][6] as well as an editor and a screenwriter. She was born in 1984, in Melbourne, Australia.
Early life
Kitty Green attended the Victorian College of the Arts, where she studied film and television. Green is a cinematographer, as well as a director and editor. Her film Ukraine Is Not A Brothel focuses on the Ukrainian feminist movement "Femen", which won an AACTA award for Best Australian Feature Documentary. She also won an award for her short film The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul for Best Non-Fiction Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival.[7]
Career
Green found her passion in filmmaking after hearing about the Weinstein scandal; she took this as an opportunity to begin her journey in filmmaking and directing following research on the topic of sexism in the workplace.[8] She wanted to expose the truth of such a repetitive, upsetting event that still occurs to this day in the modern world through her film The Assistant.
Green directed the following documentaries:
- Casting JonBenét (2017),
- Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013),
- The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul (2015).
Green also directed The Assistant, a film about an assistant in the film industry who is faced with a moral dilemma in relation to the #MeToo movement.[9]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Editor |
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| 2013 | Ukraine is not a Brothel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2014 | Austin to Boston | No | No | No | Yes |
| 2015 | The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul . | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2017 | Casting JonBenet | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| 2019 | The Assistant | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Awards and Nominations
Won AACTA award for Best Australian Feature Documentary for the documentary film "Ukraine Is Not A Brothel".[10]
Won Best Non-Fiction Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 for the short film "The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul".[11]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 2013 | Venice Film Festival | Special Mention | Ukraine is Not a Brothel | Won |
| 2013 | London Film Festival | Grierson Award | Nominated | |
| 2014 | SXSW Film Festival | Audience Award | Nominated | |
| 2014 | Bushwick Film Festival | Best Documentary Feature | Won | |
| 2015 | AFI Fest | Grand Jury Prize | The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul . | Nominated |
| 2015 | Berlin International Film Festival | Crystal Bear | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Sundance Film Festival | Short Film Grand Jury Prize | Nominated | |
| Short Film Jury Prize | Won | |||
| 2017 | Grand Jury Prize | Casting JonBenet | Nominated |
References
- ^ "Casting JonBenet". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
- ^ Q 2020-02-03, CBC radio , Interview with Kitty Green.
- ^ Interviewer Name: Folkenflik, David. "Director Kitty Green On Her New Film, 'The Assistant'". NPR.org. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ CBC News (3 February 2020). "Kitty Green's new film The Assistant will make you see sexual misconduct in Hollywood in a whole new way". CBC News.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Culture; Movies (6 February 2020). "Writer/director Kitty Green on her of-the-moment film The Assistant | National Post". Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ Phillips, Michael. "In 'The Assistant,' filmmaker Kitty Green stays just outside the room where it happens. For a reason". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Casting JonBenet". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ Culture; Movies (6 February 2020). "Writer/director Kitty Green on her of-the-moment film The Assistant | National Post". Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ Powell, Pamela. "Director Kitty Green breaks down moral complexities of 'The Assistant': "We know what's going on behind that door"". FF2 Media. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ "Casting JonBenet". www.berlinale.de. 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Casting JonBenet". www.berlinale.de. 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
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