Kelly Reichardt

Reichardt's first feature, "River of Grass," a sun-drenched film noir shot in her hometown in Dade County, Florida, was cited as "one of the best films of 1995" by The Village Voice and Film Comment. Her 1999 short, "Ode," is a super-8 reinterpretation of the Herman Raucher novel "Ode to Billy Joe" and features an original soundtrack by Will Oldham. Reichardt's other super-8 shorts include "Then a Year" (2002) and "Travis" (2004). American landscapes and narratives of the road are themes that run throughout Reichardt's work. Reichardt's film "Old Joy," winner of a Tiger Award at the 2007 Rotterdam Festival, is a New Age Western and exploration of contemporary liberal masculinity in the Great Northwest. Her 2008 film Wendy and Lucy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.