ABOUT

Katharine gave up her promising career as a trapeze artist to become a filmmaker because of her desire to tell visual stories. Her work continues to be informed by the ethereal sensation of freedom that flying brings; nothing compares to the feeling of gliding through the air, the moment of weightlessness and the exhilaration as your wrists are grasped in a perfectly timed catch. For her, creating is a process of overcoming fears, forgetting self, processing life, interpreting people and getting to a place not visited before. There is no greater joy than connecting to an idea, letting it guide you, and then trusting in the process to get to an end.

Katharine’s life started in Nigeria, where she was conceived and the year her parents ended six years of life in Africa – her father the first NY Times African foreign correspondent. She then spent four years in Paris where her first words were in French; she is still fluent. Thanks to her curious parents her world has been a wonderful mixture of East, West, North and South. Katharine is an MFA graduate of Columbia University's Film Division and has taught filmmaking at Columbia University’s undergraduate film program and Avid Editing at Chelsea Loft Productions.