[3] After quitting that job, she became interested in documentary film-making and soon gained national prominence in the United States as co-director and co-producer with Howard Smith of the film Marjoe (1972), about evangelist Marjoe Gortner, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
[9] In August 2014, her feature script Learning to Drive, based on a New Yorker story by Katha Pollitt, went before cameras.
Starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, the film was released in the United States on August 21, 2015.
A mysterious young woman, calling herself Jane, arrives in the small rundown community of Graynier, Massachusetts.
Thus begins Jane's mission, to retrieve the puzzle pieces of a former life, groping her way through the past and the present simultaneously.
[9] Kernochan is married to American stage director James Lapine, a Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award winner.