Biography

Kelly Anderson is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker and educator. Her most recent film is the short documentary Unstuck: an OCD kids movie, which premiered at the 2018 ReelAbilities Film Festival in New York City and screened at the Ashland Independent Film Festival. Her other work includes My Brooklyn, a documentary about gentrification and the redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn that won an Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS World series America ReFramed. She also made Every Mother's Son (with Tami Gold), a documentary about mothers whose children were killed by police officers and who have become national spokespeople for police reform. Every Mother's Son won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, aired on POV, and was nominated for a national Emmy for Directing. Kelly's other documentaries include Out At Work (with Tami Gold), which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on HBO and won a GLAAD Award for Best Documentary. She is the author (with Martin Lucas) of Documentary Voice & Vision: a creative approach to non-fiction media production (Focal Press, 2016). A recipient of the George C. Stoney Award for Outstanding Documentary from the University Film and Video Association, Kelly has received funding and fellowships from ITVS, The Rockefeller Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. Kelly is a Professor at Hunter College (CUNY) in New York City, where she is Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies and teaches in the Integrated Media Arts (IMA) MFA program.
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