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Katherine Fairfax Wright
Biography
Katherine Fairfax Wright ([email protected]) is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She is the director, editor, cinematographer, and producer of the feature-length documentary, Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall, which premiered at SXSW 2017 and is now available worldwide on Netflix. Wright produced the Watts-set gangster drama, Imperial Dreams, which stars John Boyega and won the Best of NEXT Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and is now a Netflix Original. Wright is the director (along with Malika Zouhali-Worrall), editor, and cinematographer of 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, and win 25+ awards. It was released around the globe including theatrically in the US and Europe, broadcast on BBC World, streaming on Netflix and Kanopy, and continues to be screened by entities such as the United Nations for high level diplomatic audiences and at advocacy events worldwide. As a director, Wright has also created short form content for McDonald's, Viacom, Pantone, Perrier-Jöuet champagne, The Standard Hotel, Corridor, The New York Times, Human Rights Watch, CNN, The Huffington Post, and Human Rights Watch. She makes political spots for organizations such as ACRONYM, the Democratic Coalition, and Red Wine & Blue. Katherine is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents, the Chaz and Roger Ebert Directing Fellowship, the Film Independent Documentary Lab, and the Film Independent Producing Lab. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Katherine was raised in Los Angeles and graduated with a double-major in Film Studies and Anthropology from Columbia University. She is currently developing a feature.