Pollack is a two-time Emmy Award-winning director, producer and executive producer. She created Time’s documentary film unit, Red Border films (now known as Time Studios), and through her ambitious drive to create the most prestigious video projects for Time, she took the helm of countless award-winning shorts and series, a two-part PBS documentary and an HBO documentary feature.
Project Lead, Executive Producer. In this unprecedented exploration of 100 photographs that shaped the human experience, Kira spearheaded and produced a three year project that determined the 100 most influential photographs all of all time. This award winning series of short docs, goes behind the images to reveal how and why the image changed the course of history. These films continue to be the highest trafficked documentary videos at Time with over 50 million views. Here is a trailer and three of the films.
The trailer to Time’s 100 Most Influential photos project.
Untitled (Cowboy), The story behind Richard Prince’s appropriated image of a Marlboro ad.
Windblown Jackie photographed by Ron Galella; Time conducted one of Gallella’s last interviews before his death in 2022.
The Falling Man, photographed by Richard Drew, has garnered more than 20 million views on Time’s Youtube channel.
FIRSTS
Series Director and Project Lead In 2016, when Hillary Clinton became the first female major-party nominee for President, Kira was inspired to create a multimedia project highlighting women who had broken barriers in a variety of fields throughout American history. We created a list of 46 pioneering women— athletes, scientists, lawmakers, entertainers and entrepreneurs. The result was an award winning series of short films, a 36 page portfolio in the magazine and a book. Here is a trailer and three of the 46 shorts.
Firsts Trailer. Interviews took place all across the United State for four months.
Oprah Winfrey was the first woman to own and produce her own talk show.
Madeleine Albright was the first woman to become the U.S. Secretary of State
At thirteen years old, Mo’ne Davis was the first girl to pitch a shutout and win a game in a Little League World Series
Director, Producer. r For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Pollack directed 46 short documentaries filmed by the photographer Marco Grob and featuring interviews with some of the most notable figures involved in 9/11 and its aftermath. Below is the trailer for the films, which won Time an Emmy, and the interactive website Pollack created [I don't see the website--should there be a link to it?]. She also directed and produced a feature-length documentary with HBO (executive producers, Sheila Nevins and Lisa Heller) for which she interviewed President George W. Bush and Senator Tammy Duckworth
Executive Producer, Producer r This Emmy-award winning, two-part series features astronaut Scott Kelly, whose record-setting year-long stay on the International Space Station tested human limits for space travel and set the groundwork for a manned mission to Mars. With unprecedented access, director Shaul Schwarz spent a year documenting Kelly on the International Space Station. The story was a 10-part episodic series on Time.com and also became a two-part feature documentary for PBS.
While at Vanity Fair, first as Deputy Editor and then as Creative Director, Kira oversaw six Vanity Fair Hollywood covers. For her first cover in 2016, she commissioned Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki, the three-time Oscar winning cinematographer (Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant), to make a cinematic cover that appeared to be in motion. The cover was first viewed by the Vanity Fair audience across mobile and digital platforms as an artistic, moving image by a renowned director, and the still image used for the print cover was captured from the video.