Kathleen Man
Kathleen is an independent filmmaker, Yale graduate, and Fulbright Scholar who hails from Hawai'i. She is the writer/director of a diverse body of award-winning documentaries and dramas including The Interview, a Kafkaesque French-language film set in Paris, Sita: A Girl from Jambu, an ethnographic drama about child sex trafficking in Nepal, and Beauty Mark, a social documentary exploring America’s obsession with body image, perfection and success. Man was also the producer and director of photography of Kind of a Blur, a film festival favorite starring Sandra Oh. Man is a tenured professor of film production at Vassar College in New York, where she teaches directing, screenwriting and narrative and documentary filmmaking. She recently directed Walk the Fish, a short film collaboration with Vassar film and drama students. Man is currently writing and directing Cosmopolitan, her first feature film.
