Kirsten Whatley Pro

Kirsten Whatley is a Hawaii-based filmmaker and editor, specializing in documentary, nature, and dance films.

She recently completed the writing and editing of the short documentary How’s Your Mom, which chronicles one woman’s inspiring journey through Alzheimer’s. The film was an award nominee at the Yorkton Film Festival and semi-finalist for the Lunenburg Doc Fest in Canada. Her narrative experience includes editing short films for Los Angeles-based director Hariharasudhen Nagarajan, the latest of which premiered at the Toronto Black Film Festival. Her own nature-based short film, You Clapped Delighted, screened at the Maui Film Festival. 

She is currently working with Whale Wise Productions on editing a series of healing films that combine underwater whale footage from French Polynesia with sound therapy. She has also edited dance films for Dancing Camera, a movement film production company in New York, and for the Migration Dance Film Project in Montreal.