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 Melbourne. She attended the Victorian College of the Arts, 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 Brisbane International Film Festival 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". The film won an AACTA 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 Sundance Film Festival.
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 worked at ABC on 'Art Nation' and 'Artscape', where she shot, edited, and produced documentary content for national broadcast. Later 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 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.
Documentary film YearTitleDirectorProducerWriterEditor2013Ukraine Is Not a Brothel2014Austin to Boston2015The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul2017Casting JonBenet
Feature film Year TitleDirectorWriter Producer Editor2019The Assistant2023The Royal Hotel
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 AACTA 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 Sundance Film Festival in 2015 for the short film The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul. +Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) AwardsYearAwardCategoryNominated workResult2015AACTA AwardBest Feature Length DocumentaryUkraine Is Not a Brothel Best Direction in a Documentary Best Editing in a Documentary 2017Best Feature Length DocumentaryCasting JonBenet Best Direction in a Documentary +Cinema Eye Honors Awards, USYearAwardCategoryNominated workResult2016Cinema Eye Honors AwardOutstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short FilmmakingThe Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul 2018Outstanding Achievement in DirectionCasting JonBenet
Year Award Category Nominated work Result2013 Venice Film Festival Special Mention Ukraine is Not a Brothel 2013 London Film Festival Grierson Award 2014 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award 2014 Bushwick Film Festival Best Documentary Feature 2015 AFI Fest Grand Jury Prize The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul 2015 Berlin International Film Festival Crystal Bear 2015 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize Short Film Jury Prize 2017 Grand Jury Prize Casting JonBenet 2021 Independent Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay The Assistant
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