NEW DAY FILMS BY
Nancy Kelly:

Downside UP

Producer's Web Site:
www.kelly-yamamoto.com

For more than 25 years, Nancy Kelly has produced and directed independent documentary and narrative films.

Her documentary Smitten, about Rene di Rosa and his collection of contemporary art by Northern California artists, premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2005 and airs nationally on PBS July 12, 2006. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the DC Independent Film Festival and shared the Audience Award at the Aspen Shortsfest. It screened at the Santa Fe Film Festival, Cinequest Film Festival (San Jose, CA), International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal), Ashland (OR) Film Festival, and at Copia in Napa, California.

She wrote, produced and directed Downside UP, an hour long documentary about America's largest museum of contemporary art, MASS MoCA, which opened as an economic development move in the abandoned Massachusetts factory where her family once worked.

She directed and co-produced the critically acclaimed American Playhouse Theatrical film Thousand Pieces of Gold, which was in many international film festivals, played in theaters in the US and Europe, and was broadcast worldwide. Ms. Kelly also produced and directed the documentaries Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women; A Cowhand's Song: Crisis on the Range; and Sweeping Ocean Views. Cowgirls was broadcast by the National Geographic Explorer Program and in the United Kingdom and won many film festival awards. She directed a number of segments - including the pilot - for SPARK , KQED San Francisco's documentary art series.

She is also in development on The Work of Art, the story of Chicago's Albany Park Theater Project, an immigrant youth theater company. Nancy is also writing, with Gwendolyn Clancy, a work of creative non-fiction called When We Were Cowgirls.

Nancy Kelly is a native of North Adams, Massachusetts. She is married to the film editor Kenji Yamamoto.

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