Kelly Anderson

Director, Emergent City & Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Kelly Anderson is a Sunset Park based documentary filmmaker whose most recent films are Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square and UNSTUCK: an OCD kids movie (2017). Her 2012 film My Brooklyn, about the hidden forces driving gentrification, had a 3-week theatrical run through IFP, won an Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed. Kelly produced and directed Every Mother’s Son (PBS, 2004, w. Tami Gold), about mothers whose children were killed by police, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award and aired on POV. She also produced and directed Out At Work (HBO, 2000, w. Tami Gold), which was at Sundance and won a GLAAD Best Documentary award. She is a recipient of the George Stoney Award for Outstanding Documentary (UFVA), and recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, ITVS, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She was a 2019 Rockwood JustFilms Fellow. From 2015-17 she co-chaired the cooperative distribution company New Day Films. Kelly is currently the Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College (CUNY).