Creative
Kim Nelson is a filmmaker who works in documentary and fiction. Her work includes experimentation with form from interactive documentary (i-docs) to fusions of film and performance. She podcasts too.
Moving Histories: a Podcast about Historical Films co-hosted by Kim with film scholars Robert Burgoyne and John Trafton.
Released monthly, the co-hosts debate the effect and meaning of newly released films and series the hostorical past. Bonus episodes feature interviews with Hollywood creatives, writers, producers, historians, and historical consultants who provide insights into the process of navigating this vital form of mass history that intertwines reality, representation, and entertainment.
The Live Doc Project (LDP) experiments with expanded and participatory cinema in non-fiction film. Kim has directed LDP since 2015. We explore mergers of documentary film, live performance, interactivity, audience participation with performances in Canada and the US, 2016-ongoing.
Pitas and Passports (2020-ongoing) Director
“The Music. The Story. The Food.” Windsor Symphony Orchestra Digital Concert Series in Collaboration with the Live Doc Project (2022)
Cinematographer, sound recordist, and segment producer
130 Year Road Trip Live (2016-2018)
Picturing the Past (2023)
Audio documentary
55 min
CBC IDEAS
Ron and Bud’s Northern Life (2019) Director
CBC Television and CBC Gem
On Girls (2016) Writer and director.
Short fiction film
130 Year Road Trip (2015) Director and editor
Feature Length Documentary and i-doc
This is What a Feminist Sounds Like (2012) Co-director with Audra Macintyre
Feature Length Documentary
Metazombie (2011). Director and editor.
Feature Length Documentary
Berliner (2010). Director and editor.
Feature Length Documentary
