Movies: Kirsten Johnson
- 2002
American Standoff (2002)
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The Teamster's Union goes on strike against Overnite Transportation, a nationwide freight company that has resisted unionization. The Union, however, faces its own internecine battles as factions inside the organization, one led by James P. Hoffa (so...
- 2001
Trembling Before G-d (2001)
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A portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation....
- 2003
Starring Osama Bin Laden (2003)
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- 2001
Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today (2001)
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Journey To The West is a contemporary exploration of the ways in which Chinese medicine - including acupuncture and herbal remedies - is being practiced today....
- 2012
Virgin Tales (2012)
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Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity. As a counter-movement of the attitudes and practices of today's culture, one in six girls in the US has vowed to remain 'unsoiled' until marriage. But the seven children...
- 2003
Asylum (2003)
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Baba, a young Ghanaian woman, goes in search of her father for his blessing on her impending marriage. This turns to a nightmare as he insists she a different man, and that she undergo female genital mutilation as is the custom in his tribe. She is f...
- 2014
That Film About Money (2014)
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What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well, you’re wrong. Like, really wrong....
- 2007
How Much Is Your Life Worth? (2007)
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Documentary looking at the work of the attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death, a moving and enlightening story of how tragedy and injustice are computed and integrated into financial considerations that make it impossible to give...
- 2007
Election Day (2007)
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Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experience of voters in today's America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, ELECTION DAY combines eleven stories--all shot simultaneously on November...
- 2007
Crime Fiction (2007)
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Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you waste your days e...
- 2014
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (2014)
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Born to Fly pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight....
- 2001
Brother Born Again (2001)
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Filmmaker Julia Pimsleur used to make up elaborate lies about her brother Marc, rather than explain that he had dropped out of college, turned his back on his Jewish heritage and moved to a Christian commune in Alaska. She and her mother initially fe...
- 2016
The Joy of Extreme Possibility (2016)
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Work in progress....
- 2001
Perpetua 664 (2001)
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Six years after I left my country, Brazil, I was sent an old sound reel in the post and I discovered a recording of my parent's wedding ceremony. I was twenty-six. It was the first time I'd ever heard my mother's voice as she died when I was a year o...
- 2014
The Wound and the Gift (2014)
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The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals....
- 2015
Once a Month on Sunday (2015)
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For the past 15 years, a group of accomplished New York women, artists and writers in their eighties and nineties, gather at the Westbeth Artists Housing for a monthly salon....
- 2016
A Thousand Mothers (2016)
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Set at an ancient nunnery above the majestic Irrawaddy River, A THOUSAND MOTHERS is an unprecedented look at the lives of Buddhist nuns in Sagaing, Myanmar....
- 2018
A Thousand Thoughts (2018)
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Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to create a "live documentary" that chronologically unfolds the quartet's groundbreaking, continent-spannin...
- 2003
A Nation on Edge (2003)
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- 2002
Ancient Poison, Modern Cure (2002)
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It’s a medical breakthrough that might never have happened - if not for the persistence of one man. A woman is fighting cancer - with the help of a deadly poison. This is the story of a life-saving connection between ancient wisdom and modern science...