About

Kiva Reardon is a producer, writer and programmer based in Los Angeles. Previously, she held the positions of: Vice President, Film at Barry Jenkins’ production company PASTEL; Associate Director of Film Programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; and Lead Programmer of Contemporary World Cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She has also worked with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Hot Docs, and the Miami International Film Festival.

In 2013 she founded cléo journal, a publication dedicated to film and feminism, which ran until 2019. Her writing on film has appeared in multiple magazines, newspapers and online.

She has acted as an advisor at screenwriting labs, served on numerous international festival juries, and has spoken at film and art institutions around the world.

She is on the founding Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.