Films by Filmmaker

Kelly Anderson

Kelly Anderson is an award-winning independent producer and director of documentary and narrative films/videos. Her most recent production is NEVER ENOUGH, about clutter, collecting and Americans' relationships with their stuff. NEVER ENOUGH won an Artistic Excellence award at the 2010 Big Sky Documentary Festival. Kelly's other films include EVERY MOTHER'S SON, a documentary about mothers whose children have been killed by police officers and who have become national spokespeople on the issue of police brutality, which she produced and directed (with Tami Gold) and edited. EVERY MOTHER'S SON won the Audience Award at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival, aired on PBS' national P.O.V. series, and was nominated for a national Emmy for Directing. In 2004, Kelly also produced, directed and edited OVERCOMING THE ODDS, which premiered at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, and has more than 2,500 copies in distribution as part of a successful international campaign to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first global public health treaty. This film is a follow-up to MAKING A KILLING, a half-hour documentary she produced and directed (with Tami Gold) and edited that addresses the marketing practices of the tobacco industry in the developing world.  In 2000, Kelly completed SHIFT, a one-hour drama for ITVS about the volatile relationship between a North Carolina waitress and a telemarketing prison inmate, which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and aired on PBS stations across the United States. Kelly's other documentaries include OUT AT WORK (with Tami Gold), which was screened at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on HBO and won a GLAAD Award for Best Documentary. She is currently working on MY BROOKLYN, a documentary about big changes taking place in Brooklyn, NY, where she has lived for 23 years. MY BROOKLYN was recently a featured project in the BAVC Producers' Institute, where Kelly developed the prototype for BROOKLYN: THE GAME, a geolocative, augmented reality smart phone game about land use and development issues.