JOHANNA B. KELLY

Johanna B. Kelly is a multi-disciplinary Designer and Filmmaker for Feature Films, TV, Music Videos, Art Exhibitions and Art Fairs, working in Melbourne, New York & LA. 

Producer, Writer and Director of The Gateway Bug, an award winning feature film documentary on global food security starring TV chef Andrew Zimmern and world premiering at Santa Barbara Film Festival. Enjoying a year long, global film festival tour, including participating as invited director to Napa Valley Film Festival's "Artist-In-Residence" program, undertaking a series of Oscar-award-winner led masterclasses and Q&A filmmaker panels. Before securing distribution through Gravitas Ventures, Nat Geo and Globosat, screening to over 40 million households, multiple airlines, and 40,000+ students as part of an expansive educational impact campaign. MEDIA / PRESS

Producer & Production Designer on 7 indie feature films in the USA including Like Lambs starring Liam Aiken and Justin Chon. In Australia, Art Directing Chris Hemsworth's Centr fitness app videos, Netflix's number #1 Clickbait starring Adrian Grenier, and teaching Production Design for Film and TV, remotely to Bachelor of Interior Design (Hons), RMIT University students, in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, during Melbourne's lockdowns.

Exhibition Designer for 2023's Sydney Town Hall, Marilyn Monroe, The Woman Behind the Icon exhibition; formerly for the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Designing over 35 NGV exhibitions including record breaking Salvador Dali: Liquid Desire with over 332,000 visitors and the NGV's first Melbourne Winter Masterpiece children's experience: Dali Kids. While earning a full scholarship and graduating with an MA in Interior Design from RMIT University. Later working with Frieze Art Fair, NYC and the world's largest art fair for prints & editions: IFPDA Print Fair NYC, as design consultant. Striving to change the world through design, art and film. Get in touch here. CREDITS BELOW.