Talent Guide

Logan Kibens

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2014, Grants and Awards 2014, Grants and Awards 2017, Project Involve 2011

Bio

Logan Kibens is a Writer/Director whose work integrates visual artistry with narrative, character driven storytelling. She is a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow and recipient of the HBO/DGA Directing Fellowship, working on shows such as True Blood, Entourage and The Newsroom. Kibens was selected as one of Film Independent’s Project Involve Fellows after completing her CalArts thesis film, Recessive. Her films have screened at museums and festivals such as The Chicago International Film Festival, Outfest, Frameline, Brooklyn Museum of Art, ZINEBI, REDCAT, and others. Kibens worked as a commercial editor for eight years, most recently at Leo Burnett on campaigns ranging from Blackberry to Cadillac to Disney. She is an award-winning production designer for theatre and dance with designs at The Goodman, Steppenwolf, and The Washington Opera to name a few. Her original screenplay Operator is supported by the Sundance Institute, Film Independent, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and was selected as a finalist for the SFFS Hearst Screenwriting Grant.

Current Project

Operator

Logline

When Joe, a computer programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, models the personality for a digital customer service voice on his wife, his carefully controlled life is thrown into chaos.