Kim Albright
Directing
Biography
Kim Albright is an award-winning Canadian-British-Filipina film director. She studied architecture in Montreal, moved to London, and featured on the British Film Institute (BFI) Upshot Program, showcasing "the most exciting emerging UK filmmaking talent". Her shorts have won awards and competed worldwide, including at the BAFTA-qualifying Encounters Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival and the British Independent Film Festival. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre Directors Lab, the Canadian Academy Director's Program for Women, and Women In the Director's Chair (WIDC) Story & Leadership, and a recipient of the CBC Films WIDC Talent Development Award and the WIDC Feature Film Award. Her first feature film, With Love And A Major Organ, received Telefilm funding and the Women In The Director’s Chair Feature Film Award and had its world premiere at SXSW 2023.
Known For
In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it.
With Love and a Major Organ
A pianist haunted by memories of a troubled past, strives to find his way back to life through music.
Albatross
Motherhood like you've never seen before.
Me, Again
'Dragonfly' tells the tale of a young boy who sets himself free from his troubles at home. The boy, upon hearing his parents return home from a drunken night out, escapes the confines of his house. He runs out of his estate and into the park, magically transforms and sets himself free.
Dragonfly
When Claire discovers she lacks direction in her life, she hires a director to show her the way.
The Director
The forgotten story of the Mercury 13.
The Purple Plain
A reluctant grandfather had the chore of taking his grandson, Edward out to lunch. Grandpa is a foul-mouthed old curmudgeon and Edward is a bible loving neurotic mess. They're stuck spending the day together and they hardly know each other. When grandpa accidentally says the F-word to a passing car, he discovers something peculiar about his grandson. He is tormented by swear words. Edward becomes a shivering, quivering wreck whenever someone swears. Grandpa is bewildered and amused by all this and takes it upon himself to cure what he thinks is a very unfortunate ailment.