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Kathleen Man
Assistant Professor of Film
Website:
www.newday.com/filmmakers/Kathleen_Man.html
www.imdb.com/name/nm1479802/
Vogelstein Cntr Drama and Film 319 / Box 508 / 845.437.5588
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Kathleen is an independent filmmaker whose films have shown in
festivals around the world. At Yale University, she earned a B.A. in
Film Studies cum laude and won the Yale Film Prize. She was an Iowa
Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she received an M.F.A. in
Film/Video Production. She was the recipient of a Fulbright
Fellowship in Paris, France; there, she directed her French-language
film, L’Entretien (The Interview), which was an official selection at
over 20 international festivals, winning 3 awards. Kathleen later
produced and shot Kind of a Blur, starring Golden Globe winner Sandra
Oh. Blur was invited to 25 top international festivals in 2005-6,
winning Best Comedic Film at the San Francisco International Festival
of Short Films. Her next film, Sita, a Girl from Jambu, a narrative
documentary on child sex trafficking in Nepal, was an official
selection at over 30 film festivals and won 7 awards in 2006-7,
including Best Feature Film in the Children’s Advocacy Category at the
Artivist Film Festival and the Audience Award at the San Diego Women
Film Festival. Most recently, Kathleen co-directed a feature-length
documentary entitled Beauty Mark, a film that examines American
society’s obsession with unattainable beauty and perfection. Beauty
Mark has screened in numerous festivals and conferences and was an
Audience Award winner at the Estes Park Film Festival and the
Moondance International Film Festival. Kathleen teaches directing,
screenwriting and documentary & narrative filmmaking at Vassar College.
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