In Conversation With Kirsten Johnson. IDFA Industry Talk 21 November 2016

Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning New York-based documentary
filmmaker and cinematographer who started working on local fiction
and documentary film projects in West Africa before graduating from
the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Asylum, a
short documentary she shot in Ghana, was nominated for an Oscar in
2004. Since then, she has shot some of the most powerful
documentaries in recent years, including A Place at the Table, the
Oscar-nominated The Invisible War and most recently Laura Poitras's
Citizenfour, which won Best Documentary at last year's Oscars.
Traveling the globe with leading documentary filmmakers for 25
years, the many subjects she has covered range from Bosnian
genocide to impoverished Nigerian maternity wards to Edward
Snowden. She made her directorial debut with Cameraperson, drawing
on footage she has shot over the course of her career and earning
her the Sheffield Doc/Fest's Grand Jury Award. Cameraperson is
screening in IDFA's special focus program Assembling Reality this
year.