About

Kiva Reardon is a producer, writer, and programmer working across fiction and non-fiction. Past credits include: Sorry, Baby and Now, Hear Me Good.

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 has also worked with the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Hot Docs, and the Miami International Film Festival.

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 on film has appeared in Filmmaker, Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, Cineaste, and many others.

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 founding Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies.