Kara Miller is a writer and director working in film and television. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/U3015269. She is also credited as K.J. Miller http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1543892/.

Kara Miller was born in Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 and educated in Jamaica and in Barbados

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...

 at Harrison College

Harrison College (Barbados)

Harrison College is a co-educational grammar school in Bridgetown, Barbados. Founded in 1733, the school takes its name from Thomas Harrison, a Bridgetown merchant, who intended it to serve as "A Public and Free School for the poor and indigent boys of the parish".It thereafter has evolved into...

 high school. At 16, she went to the United World College of the Atlantic and then to Oxford University.

Kara Miller's Directing credits http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1543892/ include: Nobody The Great (2007 – Winner of Cinequest Film Festival

Cinequest Film Festival

The Cinequest Film Festival is an annual independent film festival held in San Jose, California. The festival highlights the work of new film makers....

’s Viewers’ Voice Audience Award for ‘Best Feature Film’); award winning short films (Cheese Makes You Dream, Elephant Palm Tree and How to Make Friends) have been aired on HBO and the BBC

BBC

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 and have screened at film festivals such as Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

, Berlin Film Festival and London Film Festival

London Film Festival

The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...

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Kara Miller's Writing credits include: Lolapalooza, in development with Working Title Films

Working Title Films

Working Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, UK. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1983. It produces feature films and several television productions, including films starring comic actor Rowan Atkinson...

; Boo! (BBC

BBC

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) and Jim Jam & Sunny (ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

). Kara also has numerous writing credits in (theatre http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/miller-kara.html) and BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 – Letting Yourself Go (White Open Spaces) was nominated for a 2007 South Bank Show

The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show was a television arts magazine show, originally made by London Weekend Television , presented by Melvyn Bragg, broadcast on ITV and seen in over 60 countries worldwide — including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States...

 Award.

Winner of a Breakthrough Brit

Breakthrough Brits

Breakthrough Brits is the UK Film Council programme to honour some of Britain's best Black and Asian film-making talent.The program was designed to celebrate and advance the new wave of British film-making talent on the cusp of breakthrough international success...

 Award 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7483809.stm and the Hitchcock

Hitchcock

Hitchcock may refer to people with the surname Hitchcock:* Alfred Hitchcock , film director* A. S. Hitchcock , American botanist and agrostologist* Billy Hitchcock , American baseball player...

 Award, the Screen Nation

Screen Nation

The Screen Nation Film & TV Awards was founded in 2003 by , as a platform to raise the profile of black British and international film and television talent....

 ‘Best Emerging Talent’ award and was shortlisted for the BBC’s New Filmmaker Award.

Kara Miller has appeared on several shows including Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

’s 50 Films To See Before You Die

50 Films to See Before You Die

50 Films to See Before You Die was a television programme first shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 22 July 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air TV channel available to digital terrestrial homes in the United Kingdom. It consisted of a list of 50 films compiled by film critics,...

 http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0795328/ and Trailblazers

Trailblazers television series

Trailblazers is a television series presented by Kara Miller and first aired in October 2007 on the Community Channel . Trailblazers is a celebration, for Black History Month, of people of colour who have achieved extraordinary things...

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External links

• Kara Miller at the Internet Movie Database
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7483809.stmWed 2 July 2008 BBC
  BBC
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   Entertainment News - "My time as a Breakthrough Brit"]
• Arawak Films
• http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987331.html?categoryid=1237&cs=1Wed 11 June 2008 - "Breakthrough Brits hit big in Hollywood" Variety
  Variety (magazine)
  Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
  
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• http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/feature.jsp?V=7&SV=2&id=141545Sundance diary Channel 4
  Channel 4
  Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
  
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• Watch films by Kara Miller on Shooting People