Kimberly Reed
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Director/Producer Kimberly Reed’s films include I’M YOUR VENUS, SEAT 31: ZOOEY ZEPHYR, DARK MONEY, EQUAL, and PRODIGAL SONS. Her films garnered international acclaim including the Oscar shortlist twice, duPont Columbia Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, and 4 Critics Choice nominations; premiered at Telluride, Sundance, and BFI London; and were released on HBO Max, Netflix & PBS.
Kimberly Reed's trailblazing film PRODIGAL SONS won 14 international awards and was the first documentary by a transgender filmmaker to be theatrically released in the US. Her next feature doc, DARK MONEY, was an award-winning selection at Sundance, was promptly named one of Vogue's 66 Best Documentaries of All Time, nominated for 4 Critics’ Choice Awards and the IDA Award for Best Documentary, shortlisted for an Oscar, and won the duPont Columbia Prize. Also Oscar shortlisted was SEAT 31: ZOOEY ZEPHYR, winner of Best Short Documentary at Palm Springs Shortfest and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, among others.
Kim directed I’M YOUR VENUS, a followup on Venus Xtravaganza from PARIS IS BURNING, which was recently released on Netflix.
She was named an American Film Showcase Expert and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and Out Magazine’s “Out 100.” Her films have premiered at Telluride, Sundance, BFI London and Tribeca, and have been released on HBO/Max, Netflix, Amazon & PBS. Kim is a member of AMPAS and sits on the Documentary Branch Executive Committee.
