About
Film
Kiva Reardon is Vice President of Film at PASTEL, the filmmaking collective founded by Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak. Previously, she held the positions of: Associate Director of Film Programs at the Academy Museum and Lead Programmer of Contemporary World Cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She has also worked with Hot Docs, the Miami International Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR).
She sits on the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies
Writing & Editing
In 2013, Kiva founded an online publication dedicated to creating space for feminist voices in film criticism, cléo journal. It ran until 2019, and, with Kiva as the lead editor, published a print compendium, the cléo reader, which is on sale now.
Her writing on film has appeared in multiple magazines, newspapers and online.
Speaking & Juries
As a critic, Kiva has appeared on numerous television shows and radio programs. She hosted the the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s podcast and co-hosted their TV show, IFFR Live.
She has spoken at institutions around the world and served on numerous international festival juries.