Katherine W
Film Director
Los Angeles, CA Member since October 2017
I am the director, editor, cinematographer, and producer of the feature-length documentary BEHIND THE CURTAIN: TODRICK HALL, which premiered at SXSW 2017. I produced the Watts-set gangster drama IMPERIAL DREAMS, which won the Best of NEXT Audience Award at Sundance and is now a Netflix Original. I also directed (along with Malika Zouhali-Worrall), edited, and filmed the critically-acclaimed feature-length documentary CALL ME KUCHU, which tells the story of the last year in the life the first openly gay man in Uganda. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, went on to play 200+ festivals, win 20+ awards. It's been distributed around the globe and continues to screen for high level diplomatic audiences and at advocacy events. I was raised in Los Angeles and graduated with a double-major in Film Studies and Anthropology from Columbia University.