Kirsten Johnson Movies

The Edge of Joy follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the world's highest maternal mortality...

Documentary about the life and career of Rokia Traoré, a musician from Mali, an African country, who is one of the few women in her country,...

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...

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...

This film follows students, staff and parents through the first four years of the High School for Contemporary Arts, an experimental "small school"...

Through a unique, “mom-and-pop” style film festival, a small town in south Dakota celebrates its most famous native son, Oscar Micheaux,...

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...

An innovative project in South Florida is raising academic achievement in public grammar schools by partnering teachers with artists to work together...

A film that chronicles a young mans return to the streets where he grew up and the events that unfold after he reunites with a childhood friend.

It’s a medical breakthrough that might never have happened - if not for the persistence of one man. A woman is fighting cancer - with the help...

In the new Rwanda, women are at the forefront of change; transforming the country from the ground up and planning for a peaceful future.