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Kat Candler

Kat Candler is an award winning writer/ director. Her first feature, Cicadas, won the Audience Award at the 2000 Austin Film Festival. Kat's follow up feature, Jumping off Bridges, screened at South by Southwest, Jacksonville Film Festival and Cine World Film Festival. Her films have played on PBS, IFC.com, at suicide prevention and mental health conferences and in theaters across the country. Twice as a participant in the IFP Market's Emerging Narrative Section, her screenplays have also placed as a finalist in other competitions including the Chesterfield Fellowship Competition, Sundance Screenwriter's Lab, and Slamdance Screenplay Competition. Kat won the Grand Prize at the 2005 Rhode Island International Fil Festival Screenplay Competition. Candler currently teaches as a Lecturer in the RTF department at the University of Texas.

CAREER:

Kat Candler’s films have played at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Houston Museum of Modern Art, The National Institutes of Health and on PBS. Her feature, Hellion starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, played in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released through IFC Films. Hellion was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab participant and San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient. Candler was recently a Sundance Institute Women’s Initiative Fellow and second time San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient for her upcoming Untitled Metal Project. She recently completed the short film The Rusted for Ron Howard and Canon’s Project Imagination starring Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone.

REFERENCES:

http://www.candlerproductions.com/about/

https://tribecafilminstitute.org/filmmakers/detail/kat_candler