Kira Simon-Kennedy Producer, Ascension

Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder and co-director of China Residencies, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported more than 100 different international creative exchanges between China and the rest of the world since its inception in 2013. She is also an Academy Award nominated independent film producer on Jessica Kingdon’s first feature film Ascension 登楼叹 and is currently producing Shelley Cheung Claudon’s Laying The Last Track and Jiayu Yang’s The Entomologists, as well as several documentary shorts.

Kira is one of the three founders of Rivet, a free platform connecting creative people with opportunities worldwide, with support of NEW INC and the Made in NY Media Center. Most of all, she loves redistributing resources & mentoring justice-oriented nice people with projects for the public good.