Kirsten Johnson Movies

What is the real value of a dollar? You think that a dollar bill is money and that banks are where your cash is stored and safeguarded. Well,...

Following the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. Reverend Rob...

A young woman named Juliette reminisces a series of recent confrontations. We hear, off-screen, the voices of her loved ones, her mother, her former...

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...

Born to Fly pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight.

Documentary looking at the work of the attorneys and adjusters involved in cases of wrongful death, a moving and enlightening story of how tragedy...

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...

Khader El-Yateem, an Arab American Pastor from Palestine, and Linda Sarsour, organizer of the Women's March on Washington, come together in the wake...

A portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.

The following roundtable conversation features director Kirsten Johnson along with documentary filmmaker Gini Reticker and sound recordists...

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

Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to...

Set at an ancient nunnery above the majestic Irrawaddy River, A THOUSAND MOTHERS is an unprecedented look at the lives of Buddhist nuns in Sagaing,...

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

A film crew follows the well-known banjo player Bela Fleck on his travels to Africa, where he learns about the instrument's origins.

Work in progress.

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