NEWS

THE GENDERCATOR is now being distributed
by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Coop. For festival and educational screenings please
contact Jeff Crawford bookings@cfmdc.org. For DVD sales or personal appearances, please contact Catherine here.

Thank you for your continued interest in the Gendercator and all the ideas and discussions
fostered by the film. We have several new links on
the press page including an interview with Catherine in the new issue of OFF OUR BACKS, an essay in the Sept/Oct issue of THE GAY AND LESBIAN REVIEW, and two interviews in a November issue of WINDY CITY TIMES.

SPRING 2008

Catherine is editing an educational documentary about Afro-Brazilian spirit healing in Rio de Janiero, Brazil with professor Kelly Hayes.

Catherine is editing a new short film BUTTERY TOP for 2008 summer festival release.

Catherine is directing a music video for singer/songwriter Lindsay Bloom - www.LindsayBloom.net

Biography

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts in Biology, College of Charleston, South Carolina 1988
  • Master of Fine Arts in Film & Video, Columbia College Chicago, 1999

Writer/Director

Osco Bag (1996)

16mm, 3 minutes

Vanilla Lament (1997)

16mm, 6 minutes
Awards
  • Silver Plaque for Experimental Film, Chicago International Film Festival, 1997
  • Honorable Mention for Experimental Film, University of Oregon Queer Film Festival, 1997

One Small Step (1999)

16mm, 30 minutes
Awards
  • Best Short Film, Hamburg International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 1999
  • Audience Award for Best Short, Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 1999
  • Director's Choice for Best Short Film, Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 1999

A Christmas Sacrifice (1999)

Super 8mm, 2 minutes
Commissioned by Chicago's Film Bureau 606 for their Microfilms series.

Stray Dogs (2001)

35mm, 97 minutes
Awards
  • Best Newcomer (Acting) for Zach Gray, Savannah Film and Video Festival, 2001

Pretty Ladies: a super8explosion! (2002)

Super 8mm, 30 minutes
Awards
  • Kodak Award for Cinematography, Reeling Film Festival, 2002
  • First Prize for Experimental Short, University of Oregon Queer Film Festival, 2002
  • Kodak Award for Cinematography, Wisconsin Film Festival, 2003
  • Audience Award, Best Short Film, 2003 Indianapolis GLBT Film Festival

The Gendercator

Super 8mm & miniDV, 15 minutes
Awards
  • Best Midwestern Film, Indianapolis Fringe Film Festival, 2008
Distinctions
  • The Gendercator is the only film ever accepted, programmed and then cancelled from San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival in 31 years due to an email campaign consisting of 130 identical emails.

Screenplays

Push Me (1994)

Super 8mm, 10 minutes
  • Directed by William Stancil

Stranger Inside (2001)

  • Co-written with Cheryl Dunye (Watermelon Woman) An HBO Original Movie

The Taste of Dirt (2002)

  • Directed by Yvonne Welbon, AFI's Directing Workshop for Women

Damn Good Dog (2004)

  • A documentary about "Uga", the University of Georgia's Bulldog mascot, his history and family
  • Co-written by Greg Hardin

Life Cycles (2003)

  • Co-written with Jennifer Arnold (Maid of Honor, American Mullet)

Half Life (2004)

  • Adapted from the novel "Half Life" by Tracy Baim

Metamora (2004)

  • A modern day Jekyll & Hyde

Documentary Camera and Sound

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100 (1999)

  • Directed by Yvonne Welbon

Sisters in Cinema (2003)

  • Directed by Yvonne Welbon

Acting

Vanilla Lament (1997)

Lead, The Girl in the Hat

Pretty Ladies: a super8explosion! (2002)

Supporting, The Priestess

The Undergrad (2003)

Featured, Reverend Crouch

  • Directed by Michele Mahoney

Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (2005)

Supporting, Dorothea Miller

  • Directed by Linda Thornburg