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name: "Kirsten Johnson"
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roles: ["Producer","Actor","Cinematographer","Director"]
born: "12 October 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:35:34.571904+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Kirsten Johnson

Producer and actor. Born 12 October 1965 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Actor, Cinematographer, Director
- **Born:** 12 October 1965, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Керстен Джонсон
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6416089, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0990310/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/117841

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Citizenfour*](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md) (83)

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## Biography

Kirsten Johnson is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Born in 1965 in Seattle, she graduated from Brown University in 1987 with a BA in Fine Arts and Literature. She began her career working on fiction and documentary projects in West Africa before studying at the FEMIS film school in Paris.

Johnson has more than 40 credits as a cinematographer on feature documentaries, including *Citizenfour* (2014), *The Oath* (2010), *Fahrenheit 9/11* (2004) and *The Invisible War* (2012). She directed *Cameraperson* (2016), a collage of footage from her career that premiered at Sundance, and *Dick Johnson Is Dead* (2020). She is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Citizenfour* (2014), Fi1m 83, Co-Producer, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/citizenfour.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Dick Johnson Is Dead* (2020), Actor, Cinematography, Producer, Director, Writer

## Also known for

- *Cameraperson* (2016), Director

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