Kitty Green

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Kitty Green at the presentation of her film The Assistant at the Berlinale 2020

Kitty Green (born 1984 in Melbourne ) is an Australian film director , writer and producer . Green studied film and television at the Victorian College of the Arts . Her graduation film Spilt was shown internationally.

Professional activity

Greens debut film The Ukraine is not a brothel ( The Ukraine Is Not A Brothel ) was in 2013 on the International Film Festival of Venice presented. The documentary tells the story of Femen , the Ukrainian feminist movement. To this end, she had accompanied several women in the movement and their actions for years, and some of the activists were present at the film screening in Venice. The film reveals that Viktor Svyatsky co-founded the group, planned the actions and made the fellow women emotionally dependent. For Ukraine is not a brothel , she won the 2014 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts award for best documentary.

Green's short film The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul about a casting of six girls who are applying for the role of the Ukrainian figure skater Oksana Bajul was shown in the Generation section of the 2015 Berlinale . In 2017 Casting JonBenet ran at the Berlinale in the Panorama , Documents section. The film deals with the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey . Netflix has secured the film distribution rights. In 2020 her debut feature film The Assistant will be shown at the Berlinale in the Panorama section. The film shows a day in the life of Jane, an assistant to a powerful film producer. Green wrote the script himself.

Filmography

  • 2013: Ukraine Is Not A Brothel
  • 2015: The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
  • 2017: Casting JonBenet
  • 2019: The Assistant

Awards

  • AACTA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary 2014 for The Ukraine Is Not A Brothel
  • Best Non-Fiction Short Film Sundance Film Festival 2015 for The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul

Web links

Commons : Kitty Green  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul | The face of Ukraine: casting Oksana Bajul. February 2017, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b The Assistant. February 2020, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ukraine is Not a Brothel / Ukraina Ne Bordel. 2013, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Documentation about Femen - Humiliated Amazons. September 4, 2013, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Femen founder wanted to tear up women. September 4, 2013, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  6. ^ Keeping It Real: Women Paving the Way in Australian Documentary. August 5, 2016, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Casting JonBenet. February 2017, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Casting JonBenet | Netflix Official Site. Retrieved February 22, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Sundance 2020 Women Directors: Meet Kitty Green - “The Assistant”. January 21, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 (American English).
  10. ↑ Nick Schager: Kitty Green: So Many Male Hollywood Execs Passed on My Weinstein-Inspired #MeToo Film. Daily Beast, February 1, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  11. ^ 4th AACTA Awards
  12. ↑ The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
personal data
SURNAME Green, kitty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spilt, kitty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian film director, writer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne