Casey Cooper Johnson is an American filmmaker and social activist who has lived and worked in Kosovo since June of 1999. Casey holds a degree in Environmental Education from the University of California at Berkeley. He began his work in Kosovo with the Balkan Sunflowers, organizing grassroots post-war clean-ups, events, camps and campaigns with children and youth. Casey co-founded the Youth Video Project, a film program that produced Postcards from Peja, a documentary film debuted at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. In 2002, Casey directed the film In the Hands of the Youth, a documentary about weapons and violence in post-war Kosovo, funded by UNDP. Casey developed Crossing Bridges, and in 2001 and 2002 organized the Crossing Bridges Festivals. In 2003, he produced Outside the Framework, a televised film festival on RTK dealing with provocative social themes relevant to Kosovar society. Between 2003-2006 he produced a six-episode documentary series called Under Construction, reflecting on the transformations of ex-Yugoslavia and Albania. Since September 2005, he co-produces the widely acclaimed weekly Kosovo current affairs show Life in Kosovo. He is currently the executive director of Crossing Bridges Productions, where he works with his wife on documentary films and TV programs.
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