Intellect

Kathryn is a writer and filmmaker with a body of work that is highly awarded and internationally recognized. Kathryn’s current work focuses on how writing for the screen is shifting in our digital era. Kathryn’s feature documentary about Chaplin imitators in India The Boot Cake premiered at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival in 2008. It was subsequently selected for Chicago International Film Festival’s feature documentary competition, Docfest, and has screened in competitive festivals around the globe. Kathryn’s 2003 feature film Travelling Light was nominated for four Australian Film Institute awards including Best Original Screenplay (feature) and winner of Best Supporting Actress for Sacha Horler, as well as being nominated for Best Original Screenplay (feature) at the AWGIES.

In 1996 she gave Cate Blanchett her first film role in the short feature Parklands which was nominated for Best Original Screenplay by the AFI and won Best Cinematography (Non-feature) for Mandy Walker. Her 1991 documentary Light Years, about renowned Australian photographer Olive Cotton was nominated by ATOM as Best Documentary.

Kathryn has also written extensively for print and radio and acted as a dramaturg and script editor on projects including Noelle Janaczewska’s award-winning theatre productions including Mrs. Petrov’s Songket (winner of 2002 Griffin Playwriting Award and 2001 Playbox Asialink Playwriting Competition).

Fellowships she has been awarded include a National Film and Sound Archive Scholars and Artist’s Fellowship, a NSW Film and Television Office Screenwriter’s Fellowship and a Varuna Writing Residency.

Kathryn is currently working on Dream Street, a collection of essays and is in post-production on the semi-improvised digital feature film random 8.

(Watch the trailer for Boot Cake and read more at www.thebootcake.com)