Biography
Kristiene Clarke has numerous Broadcast, NGO, Charity and Third sector documentary credits to her name. She has worked as a Producer / Director on the BBC's flagship arts series ARENA, has made films for all the other major UK channels and for various global broadcasters. Her films have won awards at many International Film Festivals and she has had the privilege of having her work screened at the Berlinale, the United Nations, National Film Theatre, the ICA, the Directors Guild of America and the Smithsonian Museum. Kristiene's most recent film 'Give Stigma The Index Finger' for IPPF / UN / WHO featured Annie Lennox (Singer and UN Goodwill Ambassador) was screened at the Milan Mix Internationale' film festival. She has just completed a commercial 'Criminalize Hate Not HIV' for IPPF/UN (18 languages) to be shown theatrically and on Television. She is now making an accompanying documentary about the same subject.
As a practicing filmmaker Kristiene has filmed all over the world and specializes in the drama of real life stories, strong characters, well crafted narratives with candid intimate testimonies. Her work has dealt with cultural, political and sexual diversity, questioning stereotypes, challenging bigotry and prejudice on many levels. The individual subject matter in her films has ranged from sexual representation, human rights, social activism, the criminal justice system, child abuse, youth detention to films celebrating individual artistic achievement. The contributors have come from a variety of backgrounds and from all walks of life - some who have been involved in drug trafficking, gun and gang violence, others who have suffered sexual exploitation and those who have challenged society's norms through their lifestyle choices. She has also worked with individuals who have been at the highest levels of their 'careers' be they Hollywood directors, artists, actors, writers, cultural critics and pop stars through to company chairmen, sportsmen, law enforcement officials, investigative journalists, surgeons and doctors, lawyers of every flavour and politicians who have been elected to public office.
Kristiene is also an effective communicator who has taught at university and vocational level where she passed on her skills, ideas and analysis of the industry and its practice in a thought-provoking way to a wide-range of students and other creative partners. She has taught groups of students in the formal setting of the lecture theatre as well as offering supervision whilst they gain experience in a professional setting. Kristiene also has experience of one-to- one mentoring and delivering master-classes in locations as diverse as prisons, corporate boardrooms, summer camps, favelas in Brazil and at film festivals and other cultural forums throughout the world.
