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Movie Involvements: 13

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Biography

Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful : Slamdance 2014. A veteran on the independent film festival circuit, Kirk co-wrote and starred one of the first digital films: Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Kirk began her career on stage in New York off-Broadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project. Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and Suzanne Esper and improvisation with Alan Arkin. Commercials include national campaigns for Block Advisors, Verizon, Wrangler Jeans, Jeep and Dr. Pepper. Laura is a co-founder of the mentoring group “Women of Lawrence Film” where she puts into practice her interests in remedying gender inequity in film. Her research on Eve Unsell will be published in the upcoming "When Women Wrote Hollywood" (Forthcoming McFarland).

Most Famous Work

The Time Machine
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6

The Time Machine

(2002) Flower Seller
At First Sight
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6

At First Sight

(1999) Betsy Ernst
American Honey
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7

American Honey

(2016) Laura
The Stylist
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5

The Stylist

(2020) Frankie
Parallel Chords
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5

Parallel Chords

(2018) Mae Archer
Bunker Hill
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0

Bunker Hill

(2008) Halle
Murder Without Conviction
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5

Murder Without Conviction

(2004) Alberta Talley
Earthwork
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10

Earthwork

(2011) Janis Herd

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