About

Kiva Reardon is Vice President, Film at PASTEL, the Los Angeles-based production company founded by Barry Jenkins. Previously, she held the positions of: 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 served on numerous international festival juries; hosted the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s podcast and co-hosted their TV show, IFFR Live; 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.