Mark Kitchell

Mark Kitchell is best known for Berkeley in the Sixties, which was nominated for an Academy Award, won other top honors, and has become a well-loved classic, one of the defining documentaries about the protest movements of the 1960s.
More recently he made A Fierce Green Fire, which is a big-picture synthesis of environmental activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. It too was a big success, culminating in national broadcast on American Masters on Earth Day 2014. Evolution of Organic is his third film about social change movements in America.

Kitchell went to NYU film school, where he made The Godfather Comes to Sixth St., a cinema verité look at his neighbours caught up in filming The Godfather II – for which he received another (student) Academy Award nomination. He has a long career in production, beginning with Grand Theft Auto and including a Brazilian soap opera. He has written, produced and directed non-fiction television and made films for hire like Integral Consciousness.

Filmography

	BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES » The 1960s alumni of the Berkeley campus tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War...
	FIERCE GREEN FIRE, A » A FIERCE GREEN FIRE explores the history of the international environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change...