About

Kristy Best was born in Sydney, Australia and grew up training in Dance, Acting and Music.

Kristy began instructing children in the performing arts at the age of 16, opening her own talent school for kids when she graduated High School. Kristy ran the school with the support of additional staff for six years, thoroughly enjoying the energy she invested into being a mentor as well as instructor. After a long period of teaching and investing time into workshops for ‘At Risk’ teens at Youth and Drop-In Centres across Sydney, encouraging kids to follow their dreams, Kristy took a step back from teaching to practice what she preached.

Kristy furthered her Acting training at The Atlantic School of Theater and committed her time to performing and creating. Acting, choreographing and even working in Casting and with children on-set.

After spending a night entertaining actors with funny albeit self-deprecating personal anecdotes, theatre Director Kate Revz suggested Kristy turn her experiences into a one woman show. Kristy decided to give writing a shot. She sent a sample of her writing to comedy writers she respected, half expecting them to tell her to leave the writing to them. Luckily, they didn’t. Kristy felt the best way to begin this new endeavour was to pen a short film that reflected her dark humorous bent.

After being awarded a First Time Filmmakers Grant from Metro Screen and Screen NSW, for a script she submitted in 2010, Kristy Produced and Directed her First  Short Film -Something Fishy By Kristy Best. There’s a BLOG that logged the whole journey and of course, you can like the film on FACEBOOK.

2011 has been a busy year for Kristy with the film being  accepted into Vail Film Festival, LA Comedy Shorts, DC Shorts, Dungog Film Festival, Canberra Short Film Festival, Friars Club Comedy Film Festival and Cornwall Film Festival. Kristy was nominated for a ‘Reel Film Award’ for her Directing at Cornwall and Editor, Melanie Annan won an Australian Screen Editors Award for ‘Best editing in a short’ for her work on’Something Fishy’. Kristy also Directed a Charity Promo for an Alzheimers Benefit with DOP Matt Horrex winning a Gold Award at The Australian Cinematographers Society Awards in the NSW Commercials Section.

Kristy is currently in Post on a Teaser for her latest project DEADHEART and is eagerly awaiting the chance to share all the exciting news. Her original crew from ‘Something Fishy’ plus some amazing additions helped her make this happen. This time Kristy’s work is all Dark and no comedy.

Kristy is the host of ABC2′S  ‘Sunday Best’. Tune in each Sunday night at 8.30pm to watch truly thought provoking and game changing Feature Documentaries.

Kristy is the Director of Seraphic Films