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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.