DIRECTOR
Filmmaker Cindy Kleine's prolific career began when she was an undergraduate at The Museum School and the legendary MIT Film/Video Section, studying with Richard Leacock, influenced by visiting filmmakers Ed Pincus and Robert Frank, and among a legion of future filmmakers in the program, including Ross McElwee, Robb Moss and John Gianvito. In line with Boston peers, Kleine has developed a central body of family dramas, including the acclaimed features, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, a personal portrait of her renowned theatre director husband, and Phyllis and Harold, an intense probe of her parents' disastrous fifty-nine year marriage. Additionally, Kleine has gone outside of family in her short films Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug, Inside Out, and Holy Matter; and she's explored the mysteries and foibles of romantic love in poetically framed psychodramas Secrets of Cindy and Passage.
Kleine's films have been exhibited at many international festivals including: Telluride, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Vancouver, Santa Fe, DokLeipzig, and Provincetown, and at such venues as Film Forum, The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, The Knitting Factory and Anthology Film Archives in NYC, The Music Hall in LA, Carlton Cinema, Toronto, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The ICA in London and The Center d'art Contemporain in Lyon, France. Her film, Doug and Mike, Mike and Doug was broadcast on PBS's POV Film Series.
Kleine has received awards and fellowships from The American Film Institute, The Iowa Independent Film Festival, The Jewish Eye (Israel), The MacDowell Colony, The Bard College MFA Fellowship Program, and The New England Regional Fellowship Program. She has taught filmmaking at Boston College, Harvard University, The Museum School, Boston, and The New School for Social Research. She lives with her husband, André Gregory, in New York City and on Cape Cod.
