Kelly Reichardt

Born in Flori­da, she went to the School of the Muse­um of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1994, she wrote and direct­ed her fea­ture debut Riv­er of Grass. The great Amer­i­can land­scapes and jour­ney sto­ries became part of her uni­verse, as in Old Joy (2006), which won the Tiger Award at the Rot­ter­dam Film Fes­ti­val, and Meek’s Cut­off (2010), shot in Oregon’s high plains desert. She won the 2013 Deauville Film Festival’s Grand Prize with her eco-sus­pense thriller Night Moves.