Vivian Kerr at the Deauville-American Film Festival.
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Vivian Kerr directing on the set of SÉANCE.
Lana Parrilla, Vivian Kerr, and Anthony Rapp on the set of SCRAP.
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Vivian Kerr is an LA-based actor, writer, director, and producer with her company Rue Dangeau. She recently won the 2024 Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot Award for her historical drama THE MITFORDS.
SCRAP, her feature film debut, co-starring Anthony Rapp, Lana Parrilla, Beth Dover, and Khleo Thomas, world premiered in competition at the 2022 Deauville-American Film Festival and has 40+ official selections on the festival circuit.
SCRAP won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Naples International Film Festival, Coronado Island Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, Fayetteville Film Festival, SModcastle Film Festival, and Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival.
Vivian also recently won the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Narrative Directing at the SOHO International Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize in Acting Achievement at Phoenix Film Festival, Outstanding Actress at Micheaux Film Festival, Best Director at Mystic Film Festival, the MINT Spirit Award at the Montana International Film Festival, Best Actress at Beaufort International Film Festival, and Best Director at Waco Independent Film Festival.
Her screenplay for SCRAP was a Top 10 Finalist in Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Competition. Her second feature, SÉANCE, a Victorian-era psychological thriller, was selected for Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List and recently had its World Premiere at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival.
She was a Finalist in Sony Pictures TV’s Rising Storytellers Search with her pilot FIVE POINTS, about the female-led gangs of 19th century New York, which was also invited into the Stowe Story Labs, the Story Incubator Writing Lab, and selected for the inaugural Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator (formerly Women's Weekend Film Challenge).
As an actor, her work includes episodes of GREY'S ANATOMY, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SUPERSTORE, MASTERS OF SEX, CRIMINAL MINDS, NEW GIRL, CASTLE, FRANKLIN & BASH, and THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. She has a BA in Theatre from the University of Southern California, during which time she studied Shakespeare in London. Vivian is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Alliance of Women Directors, and Film Fatales.
SCRAP, her feature film debut, co-starring Anthony Rapp, Lana Parrilla, Beth Dover, and Khleo Thomas, world premiered in competition at the 2022 Deauville-American Film Festival and has 40+ official selections on the festival circuit.
SCRAP won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Naples International Film Festival, Coronado Island Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, Fayetteville Film Festival, SModcastle Film Festival, and Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival.
Vivian also recently won the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Narrative Directing at the SOHO International Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize in Acting Achievement at Phoenix Film Festival, Outstanding Actress at Micheaux Film Festival, Best Director at Mystic Film Festival, the MINT Spirit Award at the Montana International Film Festival, Best Actress at Beaufort International Film Festival, and Best Director at Waco Independent Film Festival.
Her screenplay for SCRAP was a Top 10 Finalist in Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Competition. Her second feature, SÉANCE, a Victorian-era psychological thriller, was selected for Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List and recently had its World Premiere at the 2024 Newport Beach Film Festival.
She was a Finalist in Sony Pictures TV’s Rising Storytellers Search with her pilot FIVE POINTS, about the female-led gangs of 19th century New York, which was also invited into the Stowe Story Labs, the Story Incubator Writing Lab, and selected for the inaugural Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator (formerly Women's Weekend Film Challenge).
As an actor, her work includes episodes of GREY'S ANATOMY, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SUPERSTORE, MASTERS OF SEX, CRIMINAL MINDS, NEW GIRL, CASTLE, FRANKLIN & BASH, and THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. She has a BA in Theatre from the University of Southern California, during which time she studied Shakespeare in London. Vivian is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Alliance of Women Directors, and Film Fatales.