Kathleen Bryson - Acting and Film-making

Acting and Film-making

In early 2002, Bryson wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Viva Voce Virus, which she co-directed with Finnish director Kimmo Moykky, a surreal time-travel thriller about the Hollywood closeting system. The film was completed in November 2008, and had its world premiere at Portland's Siren Nation Film Festival on November 5, 2008. The UK Premiere took place in York at the Cine25 Film Festival in February 2009. Bryson has also had numerous short film accepted and screened at various festivals, including Ladyfest Olympia Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Flixation and My Pretty Portland / Art Institute of Portland Competition.

She is currently in pre-production for her second feature, Spaceships Over Corvallis, which she has also written.

Bryson acted under the name Kiirik Bryson for several years, though she now uses "Kathleen Bryson". Kiirik is an Inupiaq name which was given to her shortly after birth in Wainwright, Alaska. Recent screenings of her lead roles in acting work have been in the films I Want to be a Secretary (dir. Sarah Wood, Winner: Best Film, London Short Film Festival 2007), Surrender (dir. Sarah Wood), a dreamy and Sherman-esque experimental short screened at London's National Film Theatre and in a number of festivals. She also played Diana Dors in I am Diana Dors (dir. Ali Smith), screened at the Cambridge International Film Festival, 2004. All three were produced by Woo Hoo Productions.

Bryson has done some part-time modeling, and had appeared both in Rankin's SNOG art exhibition in Brick Lane, London 2000 and in his Snog book as well. Bryson also appeared in the book Red Threads (Parminder Sekhon, photographer) as a gangster moll, on a book cover for Ice Queen, Virgin Publishing in 2000 (Parminder Sekhon, photographer), in a 2001 feature article for The Observer's LIFE Magazine photographed by John Stoddart in 2001, and ongoing as the "Face of Diva Magazine 2004" in a series of subscriptions ads for Diva Magazine in 2004 (Venetia Elphick, photographer).