Filmmaker
Katie is based in New York City, where she was born and raised. She studied history, Spanish, and film at Wesleyan University, where she graduated with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa. Katie wrote her undergraduate thesis on the Valley of the Fallen that she based on interviews she conducted while living in Madrid. Her thesis won high honors from Wesleyan as well as the award for best undergraduate work on the Spanish Civil War from the Abraham Lincoln Brigades Archive, which published part of her essay in their magazine The Volunteer. Katie has been involved in documentary filmmaking since graduating. Among other projects, Katie co-produced Embedded, the film by Tim Robbins, based on his play of the same name about media coverage of the war in Iraq, which was shown at the Venice Film festival; Katie was the associate producer of Free to Fly: the U.S.-Cuba Link, a documentary by the award-winning director Estella Bravo, about the travel between the U.S. and Cuba, which has been shown at the Havana Film Festival, the New York Havana Film Festival, and the International Los Angeles Latino film festival. Most recently, Katie was the outreach and organizing director for the documentary The Take about the workers’ movement in Argentina, by No Logo author Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. The Take was shown in Argentina, at the Toronto film Festival, at the Venice Film Festival, and is now screening at the Film Forum in New York City. La Memoria es Vaga is Katie’s first documentary.