Johanna B. Kelly is a multi-disciplinary Designer and Filmmaker for Feature Films, TV, Music Videos, Art Exhibitions and Fairs, working in Melbourne, New York & LA.
Award winning feature film Producer, Writer and Director for The Gateway Bug. A documentary on global food security, starring TV chef Andrew Zimmern, world premiere at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Enjoying a global film festival tour, including Napa Valley Film Festival's "Artist-In-Residence" invitational program, a week of Oscar-award-winner led masterclasses and Q&A filmmaker panels. Before securing global 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 show in 2021 Clickbait starring Adrian Grenier, and teaching a Production Design for Film and TV class based on Goodfellas, to Bachelor of Interior Design (Hons), RMIT University students, in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, during Melbourne's COVID 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 for over 332,000 visitors and the NGV's first Melbourne Winter Masterpiece children's experience: Dali Kids. Earning a full scholarship based on design practice and the intersection of audience, exhibition and interior design in large art institutions, 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 designer and VIP consultant. Get in touch here. CREDITS BELOW.
CREDITS
Before securing global distribution with Gravitas Ventures and National Geographic,The Gateway Bug world premiered at Santa Barbara Int. Film Festival. Screening worldwide in theatres, TV and on Emirates and Hong Kong Airlines, exposing America’s disconnect with food as climate catastrophe. Following the dramatic rise and fall of edible insect start-ups, uncovering daily habit changes that can repair a broken American food system, one meal at a time. Screening at over 45 international film festivals across the Americas, Asia, Europe & Australia, and receiving:
- the American Conservation Film Festival 'Green Spark Award'
- 'Best Environmental Documentary' at Melbourne Doc Film Fest
- Impact DOCS 'Award of Excellence'
- Bonita Springs Int. Film Fest ‘Audience Award’
- 'Special Menzione' at the Milano Int. Film Festival Awards
- 'Best Documentary' nom at Napa Valley Film Fest, Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Oscar Award qualifying, Nashville Film Festival.
Enjoying an educational run in schools across America, giving over 40,000 students from Minnesota, to Detroit, Santa Barbara, Vail and the Napa Valley, the chance to hear filmmaker Q&A stories, eat bugs and learn by watching.
FEATURE FILMS
Relic
Carver Films [Set Designer]
The Gateway Bug
The Gateway Bug LLC [Director, Co-Producer, Co-writer and Designer]
Pitching Tents
Meritage Pictures [Production Designer]
Landing Up
Bold Compass Films [Production Designer]
Don't Sleep
Minds I Cinema [Set Decorator]
Cabin Fear
Hellhouse Productions
[Production Designer]
Like Lambs
The Prospekt Group [Associate Producer, Production Designer]
The Opposite Sex
Woodhaven Productions
[Set Decorator & On-set Dresser]
SHORT FILMS
Dinosaur
FDC films
[AD, AP, Production Designer]
Delivery Boy
Delivery Boy Productions
[Co-Producer, Co-writer, Production Designer]
Mirrors and Ghosts
Tara Violet Niami
[Production Designer]
Dark Room
Quill Film [Production Designer]
COMMERCIALS
Dan Murphy's,
Father's Day,
90Seconds
[Production Designer]
My Lagos, My Way,
Studio Matter
[Production Designer]
GE Reveal,
Vayner Media
[Set Decorator]
OTG for LAX,
PIRANHA NYC
[Art Director]
Philosophy Skincare,
CVLT Productions
[Set Decorator]
Hawthorne, launch campaign,
Hawthorne for Men
[Art Director]
Zazen Bear, holiday campaign Winter,
Studio Matter
[Production Designer]
24 Hubert St,
Marshad Productions
[Art Director]
TV
Clickbait,
Netflix / Matchbox / NBCU
[Assistant Art Director]
Family Food Fight S2,
Channel 9
[Draughtswoman]
DIGITAL
CENTR,
Chris Hemsworth's fitness app
[Video Art Director]
Music Videos
JEDI MIND TRICKS -
Deathless Light
[Art Director]
KAZIAN - Sparks
[Art Director]
UNA LUX - Somewhere
[Art Director]
UNA LUX - Simon
[Art Director]