Kiva Reardon is a producer and the founder of good name films, a production company working across fiction and non-fiction. She is the host and lecturer of Sundance’s Film Club.

Previously, she held the positions of: Vice President of Film at Barry Jenkins’s production company PASTEL; 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 founded cléo journal, a publication dedicated to film and feminism, which ran from 2013 to 2019. Under Kiva’s leadership, cléo became an internationally-respected outlet that helped launch a new generation of film writers. IndieWire called cléo an "essential source for smart, fresh, and feminist perspectives on film and media." Its print compendium was published in 2020.

Her writing has appeared in Filmmaker, Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, Cineaste, and many others. She writes a newsletter on movies and motherhood, Care Takes.

She has acted as an advisor at screenwriting labs and served on festival juries at Locarno, Jeonju, Palm Springs, Aspen, and more. She has spoken at film and art institutions around the world.

She is on the Advisory Boards of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies and Cinecamp, which advances equity in film by removing childcare barriers that prevent primary caregivers from fully participating in film festivals, markets and cultural events.