Kirsten Johnson Movies

The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality...

This film follows students, staff and parents through the first four years of the High School for Contemporary Arts, an experimental "small school"...

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....

Work in progress.

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years...

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...

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...

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...

This documentary tells the story of an FBI sting that took place in Albany in 2004. The idea was to entrap Yassin Aref, 37 and Mohammed Hossain, 51....

A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply...

Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.

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...

Native American Natural Foods is one of the only private enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. When their new energy bar gains national...

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

Documentary - The documentary directed by Joshua Seftel follows the revival production of the Broadway musical including casting, rehearsals, and...

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,...