Introduction
Kitty Green is the director of the 2019 film The Assistant, as well as an editor and a screenwriter.She was born in 1984, in Melbourne, Australia.
Early Life
Kitty Green attended the Victorian College of the Arts, where she studied film and television. Green is a cinematographer, as well as a director and editor. Her film Ukraine Is Not A Brothel focuses on the Ukrainian feminist movement "Femen", which won an AACTA award for Best Austrailian 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.
Career
Green found her passion in filmmaking after hearing about the Weinstein scandal, she took this as an opportunity to begin her journey in filmmaking and directing following research on the topic of sexism in the workplace. She wanted to expose the truth of such a repetitive, upsetting event that still occurs to this day in the modern world through her film The Assistant.
Films
Green directed the following documentaries:
- Casting JonBenét (2017),
- Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013),
- The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul (2015).
Green also 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.
Awards
Won AACTA award for Best Australian Feature Documentary for the documentary film "Ukraine Is Not A Brothel"..
Won Best Non-Fiction Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 for the short film "The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul".
| Year | Films | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Ukraine is not a Brothel | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Austin to Boston | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2017 | Casting JonBenet | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | The Assistant | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Year | Films | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Ukraine is not a Brothel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Austin to Boston | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Casting JonBenet | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | The Assistant | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Film credits
| Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Ukraine is not a Brothel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Won AACTA award, best Australian Feature Documentary |
| 2014 | Austin to Boston | No | No | No | Yes | |
| 2015 | The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul . | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Won Best Non-Fiction Short Film, Sundance Film Festival, 2015 |
| 2017 | Casting JonBenet | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2019 | The Assistant | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Producers: James Schamus and Scott Macaulay |