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Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning New York-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. Her film credits include Derrida, the 2002 documentary on French philosopher Jacques Derrida, the 2006 documentary Darfur Now, and the 2008 Pray The Devil Back to Hell, which won the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary. Her most recent work is The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras, about Osama bin Laden's driver, Abu Jandal, for which Johnson won an award from Sundance.
Johnson is a 1987 graduate of Brown University. Her 1999 film Innocent Until Proven Guilty examined the numbers of African American men in the U.S. criminal justice system.
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