Movies: Kirsten Johnson

  • 2003
    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation (2003)

    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation

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    Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country, perhaps the only one, who manages to have a career in music. She's recorded with Kronos Quartet, and lives be...

    Rokia: Voice of a New Generation
  • 2003
    A Nation on Edge

    A Nation on Edge (2003)

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    A Nation on Edge
  • 2003
    Chasing the Virus

    Chasing the Virus (2003)

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    Chasing the Virus
  • 2007
    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts (2007)

    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts

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    This film follows students, staff and parents through the first four years of the High School for Contemporary Arts, an experimental "small school" housed within one of the most dangerous schools in the Bronx....

    Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts
  • 2002
    Ancient Poison, Modern Cure

    Ancient Poison, Modern Cure (2002)

    Ancient Poison, Modern Cure

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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...

    Ancient Poison, Modern Cure
  • 2003
    India

    India (2003)

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    India
  • 2015
    Once a Month on Sunday

    Once a Month on Sunday (2015)

    Once a Month on Sunday

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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....

    Once a Month on Sunday
  • 2011
    The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

    The Lady Is a Fighting Lion (2011)

    The Lady Is a Fighting Lion

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    By exploring the life of political activist Marie Runyon, we encounter a woman motivated not only to fight against injustice, but to also inspire victims of injustice to fight for themselves....

    The Lady Is a Fighting Lion
  • 2004
    The Venetian Dilemma

    The Venetian Dilemma (2004)

    The Venetian Dilemma

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    Few can resist Venice's magical allure, but with more than 14 million visitors a year, Italy's glorious city of canals faces a number of threats. This documentary examines issues at the heart of Venice's precarious future. Interviews reveal a city in...

    The Venetian Dilemma
  • 2005
    Project Leap: Learning Out Loud

    Project Leap: Learning Out Loud (2005)

    Project Leap: Learning Out Loud

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    An innovative project in South Florida is raising academic achievement in public grammar schools by partnering teachers with artists to work together in the classroom....

    Project Leap: Learning Out Loud
  • 2011
    I Came to Testify

    I Came to Testify (2011)

    I Came to Testify

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    Sixteen women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in Foca, Bosnia, testify in an international court of law....

    I Came to Testify
  • 2005
    Red Hook Justice

    Red Hook Justice (2005)

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    Red Hook Justice
  • 2004
    Building to Extremes

    Building to Extremes (2004)

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    Building to Extremes
  • 2015
    Buffalo Returns

    Buffalo Returns (2015)

    Buffalo Returns

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    Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national distribution, it gives new hope to a struggling community....

    Buffalo Returns
  • 2011
    The War We Are Living

    The War We Are Living (2011)

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    The War We Are Living
  • 2006
    Welcome Back to the Barrio

    Welcome Back to the Barrio (2006)

    Welcome Back to the Barrio

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    A film that chronicles a young mans return to the streets where he grew up and the events that unfold after he reunites with a childhood friend....

    Welcome Back to the Barrio
  • 2018
    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 (2018)

    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

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    Made from footage captured at Brooklyn’s BAMcinemafest in June 2016 in which filmmakers were left alone in a hotel with a camera and a question: "Is cinema a dead language, an art which is already in the process of decline?" An homage to Wim Wenders’...

    ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016