Casting JonBenet
Panorama 2017
USA/AUS 2017
by: Kitty Green
Casting JonBenet
Panorama 2017
USA/AUS 2017
by: Kitty Green
Casting JonBenet
Panorama 2017
USA/AUS 2017
by: Kitty Green
Kitty Green
Feb 12, 2017Kitty Green
The film's director.
Panorama – Casting JonBenet
Feb 12, 2017James Schamus
The film's producer.
Panorama – Casting JonBenet
Feb 12, 2017James Schamus
Panorama – Casting JonBenet
The truth about a murder is usually difficult to grasp. The question is: which is better, a documentary or a fictional approach? In Casting JonBenet director Kitty Green attempts to use both approaches at the same time. The unsolved death of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey has preoccupied the American public for twenty years. Under the pretext of searching suitable actors for a feature film about this mysterious case, Kitty Green invites everyone in the girl’s Colorado home town community who had contact with the Ramsey family. In screen tests the diverse protagonists reveal their version of the truth, which becomes increasingly complex as the film progresses. Filmed on a set, the film’s documentary sections are juxtaposed with carefully dramatised fictional scenes until the various portrayals would appear to form a single truth. Truth has many facets, and the fictional dramatisation of the real story displaces the memories. All is not what it would at first appear to be.
by
Kitty Green
USA / Australia 2017
English
Documentary form81’ · Colour
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1984, she studied film and television at the Victorian College of the Arts. She is a director, editor and cinematographer who won the AACTA award for Best Australian Feature Documentary with Ukraine Is Not A Brothel, a documentary about the Femen feminist movement which screened at over 50 international festivals including Venice. Her short film The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul won Best Non-Fiction Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival and screened in the Berlinale Generation section in 2015.
Filmography2013 Ukraine Is Not A Brothel 2015 The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul; IFB Generation 2017 Casting JonBenet
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017
Matricide Pictures
Forensic Films
Symbolic Exchange