Faculty Bio
 | Alison KellyDepartment of Graduate Film |
Biography
Alison Kelly is a cinematographer whose work includes feature films, documentaries, television productions, music videos and art films.The Owls, a feature she filmed in the fall of 2009, will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this February. Other festival successes include Make a Wish, Fourteen and Hummer, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She has been recognized for her cinematography on The Twenty with the Macat ASC Award from the Kent Film Festival. She also filmed Freedom to Choose, a short film that won the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase for Documentary Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Her work has appeared on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, the Public Broadcasting System and Canal Plus.
She started her photographic studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art as a teenager. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Columbia University and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinematography from The American Film Institute.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 2001, she worked in New York as a camera operator and assistant on features such as The Bone Collector, Oceans 11, and Personal Velocity and on television series including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, American Masters and New York Undercover.
Her film career has led her to many parts of the world - from the battlefields of Belgium to the tsunami-devastated areas of Banda Aceh.
