Movies: Kirsten Johnson
- 2003
Rokia: Voice of a New Generation (2003)
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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...
- 2003
A Nation on Edge (2003)
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- 2003
Chasing the Virus (2003)
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- 2007
Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts (2007)
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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....
- 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...
- 2003
India (2003)
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- 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....
- 2011
The Lady Is a Fighting Lion (2011)
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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....
- 2004
The Venetian Dilemma (2004)
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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...
- 2005
Project Leap: Learning Out Loud (2005)
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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....
- 2011
I Came to Testify (2011)
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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....
- 2005
Red Hook Justice (2005)
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- 2004
Building to Extremes (2004)
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- 2015
Buffalo Returns (2015)
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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....
- 2011
The War We Are Living (2011)
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- 2006
Welcome Back to the Barrio (2006)
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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....
- 2018
ROOM H.264: Brooklyn, NY, June 2016 (2018)
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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’...