Kitty Green (born 1984) is an Australian film director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. The majority of her projects have been documentaries, while two have been narrative-driven stories. Green produced, directed, wrote, and edited the 2019 film '' The Assistant''.Q 2020-02-03, CBC radio , Interview with Kitty Green. Her work often portrays heavy topics such as unsolved murders and politics.

Early life and education

Kitty Green grew up in

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. She attended the

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, where she studied film and television. While attending the Victorian College of the Arts, Green made a short film entitled ''Spilt'' that was premiered at the

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and screened at festivals internationally, earning a few awards in the process. Soon after her graduation, Green began work at ABC on 'Art Nation' and 'Artscape'. Green also traveled around Europe and described herself as "crashing on couches" during the beginning of her career. She later went to work on a film entitled ''Van Diemen's Land'' in 2009, but only in the camera and electrical department, specifically in charge of stills. A few years later she went on to work on her first documentary ''Ukraine is Not a Brothel,'' spending a year in her grandmother's native home, Ukraine. During the filming she was arrested by the SBU and faced what she described as "a ferocious media circus" when the film released. She and two other protesters were forcefully taken and abducted by officers, and were held in a SBU office for lengthy interrogations. Green's friends and family were highly concerned about her disappearance, and say she is extremely lucky to have come out of the situation safely. Her film '' Ukraine Is Not A Brothel'' focuses on the Ukrainian feminist movement "

Femen Femen (stylized in all caps; Russian and Ukrainian: Фемен, Belarusian: Фэмэн) is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group whose goal is to protect women's rights. The organization became internationally known for organizing con ...

". The film won an

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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

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. Later on in 2017 Green moved to the United States to work on her documentary '' Casting JonBenét'' and currently resides there''.''

Career

Soon after graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts, Green went on to work at ABC on 'Art Nation' and 'Artscape' where she shot, edited, and produced documentary content for national broadcast. Later on she worked on ''Van Diemen's Land'' (2009) in the camera and electrical department. Green directed the following documentaries: * '' Casting JonBenét'' (2017), * '' Ukraine Is Not a Brothel'' (2013), * ''The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul'' (2015). She also helped on the documentary ''Austin to Boston'' as an editor in 2014. 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. Her feature film ''The Royal Hotel'' was released in 2023, to positive reviews.

Filmography

While it is unclear when Green released it, she did make a student film entitled ''Spilt''.

Awards and nominations

Green did receive a few awards for her student film Spilt but an official list of nominations and awards are not currently available for this film. Green won an

award for Best Australian Feature Documentary for the documentary film '' Ukraine Is Not A Brothel''. Green also won Best Non-Fiction Short Film at the

in 2015 for the short film ''The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul''.

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* 1984 births Living people Australian women film directors Australian women screenwriters Australian documentary film directors Australian women film editors Australian women documentary filmmakers Australian women film producers Australian film editors Victorian College of the Arts alumni {{Australia-film-director-stub