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Mini Biography

Kelly Reichardt was born and raised in Miami-Dade Country, Florida to a family of police officers. Had an interest in photography from a very young age. She started by used her father's camera, which he used for photographing crime scenes. Went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. In the summer of 2005 Reichardt filmed Old Joy which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Old Joy was the first American film to win the Tiger award at the Rotterdam Film Festival and will open at the Film Forum in New York City. Reichardt's first feature, River of Glass, a sun-drenched noir shot in her home town of Dade County, was cited as "one of the best films of 1995" by the Boston Globe, Village Voice, Film Comment, the New York Daily News, Paper Magazine and the San Francisco Guardian.

Personal Quotes

[on the potential parallels of 'Meek's Cutoff' with current times ] Here was the story of this braggart leading a bunch of people into the desert without a plan and becoming completely reliant on the locals who are socially different from him and who he is suspicious of. All of which seemed relevant to the moment.

[on the title character in 'Meek's Cutoff'] He's so compelling, and what was really interesting is how everyone experiences him differently. If you read the journals of those who were there, it's clear that some see him as a loudmouth and a bit of a buffoon, and some felt he was just a trapper who had misread his maps. Others felt he was just full of it. The only thing all the journals agree on is he was a showman.