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Kathleen Man was born and raised in Hawaii and lives in Boulder, Colorado. She is an independent producer, director, cinematographer and editor whose films have shown in festivals around the world. In 1999, she won a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship which took her to Paris, France, where she made L’Entretien (The Interview), a French-language film which was an Official Selection in over 20 international festivals in 2002-3, winning 3 awards, including the 2003 Colorado Biennial. In 2005, L’Entretien was released on the Shorts! Film Festival DVD collection of award-winning festival shorts. In 2005, Kathleen produced and shot Kind of a Blur, which stars Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh. In 2005-6, Kind of a Blur was invited to 21 top international festivals and won Best Comedic Film at the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films and Honorable Mention at the Athens International Film and Video Festival. In 2006, Kathleen completed Sita, a Girl from Jambu, a feature documentary on child sex trafficking in Nepal, which she produced, directed, shot and co-edited. In 2006, Sita has been an official selection at 30 international festivals. It has won 7 awards, 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. Currently, Kathleen is co-directing and editing a feature-length documentary entitled Beauty Mark, a film that examines American society’s obsession with unattainable beauty and perfection. Kathleen was an Iowa Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she received an M.F.A. in Film and Video Production and an M.A. in Communication Studies. At Yale University, she received a B.A. with honors and distinction in Film Studies and the Howard Lamar Prize in Film Studies. Kathleen has been a professor of film production in the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2001, where she teaches fiction and documentary filmmaking, directing, cinematography, editing and screenwriting. In the summer of 2006, Kathleen founded her film production company, Salmon Pictures, named after her black Labrador Retriever. In Fall 2007, Kathleen will join the faculty of the Department of Drama and Film at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY as an Assistant Professor of Film Production. |
