Kelly Anderson is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker and educator with a diverse portfolio of work. Her most recent short documentary, Unstuck: an OCD kids movie, premiered at the 2018 ReelAbilities Film Festival in New York City and was later screened at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.
Anderson's other notable projects include My Brooklyn, a documentary that explores gentrification and the redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn, which won an Audience Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS World series America ReFramed.
She also co-directed Every Mother's Son with Tami Gold, a documentary that focuses on mothers whose children were killed by police officers and who have become national spokespeople for police reform. The film won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, aired on POV, and was nominated for a national Emmy for Directing.
Anderson's other documentaries include Out At Work, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, was broadcast on HBO, and won a GLAAD Award for Best Documentary. She co-authored the book Documentary Voice & Vision: a creative approach to non-fiction media production with Martin Lucas, which was published by Focal Press in 2016.
Throughout her career, Anderson has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the George C. Stoney Award for Outstanding Documentary from the University Film and Video Association, funding and fellowships from ITVS, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Currently, Anderson is a Professor at Hunter College (CUNY) in New York City, where she is Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies and teaches in the Integrated Media Arts (IMA) MFA program.
