Michelle Carey

Michelle Carey is an Australian-born, Berlin-based film programmer and curator. She serves as member of the selection committee and programmer at the International Film Festival Rotterdam; she is a program advisor at the New York Film Festival, and the co-founder of The Red Balloon Alliance, an initiative designed to provide family-friendly solutions at film festivals. Prior to that, she was on the selection committee of the Directors’ Fortnight, and ran the Melbourne International Film Festival as its artistic director between 2011-2018. In 2017 she was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government.