Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer known for her versatility and fairness. Her film credits include Derrida

Derrida (film)

Derrida is a 2002 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman about the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival before being released theatrically on October 23, 2002.-Synopsis:...

, the 2002 documentary on French philosopher Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

, the 2006 documentary Darfur Now

Darfur Now

Darfur Now is a 2007 documentary film examining the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. It was written and directed by Ted Braun and produced by Don Cheadle, Mark Jonathan Harris and Cathy Schulman. Executive Producers were Jeffrey Skoll and Omar Amanat...

http://emol.org/film/archives/darfurnow/filmmakers.html, and the 2008 Pray The Devil Back to Hellhttp://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/nonflash/about.htm, which won the Tribeca Film Festival

Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...

 Best Documentary. Her most recent work is The Oath

The Oath (2010 film)

The Oath is a 2010 documentary from director Laura Poitras. It tells the cross-cut tale of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose meeting launched them on juxtaposed paths with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, US military tribunals and the U.S. Supreme Court...

http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/movies/07oath.html, directed by Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras is a documentary film director and producer.Her 2006 film My Country, My Country was nominated for an Oscar.Her 2010 film The Oath won the "Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S...

, about Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

's driver, Abu Jandal

Abu Jandal

Abu Jandal is a former member of al-Qaeda and former chief bodyguard of Osama bin Laden.He is a Saudi citizen of Yemeni descent. Abu Jandal was arrested by Yemeni authorities in connection with the USS Cole bombing in October 2000,...

, for which Johnson won an award from Sundance

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...

.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

Johnson is a 1987 graduate of Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

. Her 1999 film Innocent Until Proven Guilty examined the numbers of African American men in the U.S. criminal justice system.

External links

• 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