NEWS

THE GENDERCATOR is now being distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Coop. For festival and educational screenings please contact Larissa Fan 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 Winter 2008-2009 issue of SINISTER WISDOM by Robyn Epstein.

FOUR SHORT FILMS ABOUT GENDER including Vanilla Lament, One Small Step, Pretty Ladies and The Gendercator can now be seen or downloaded pay-per-view in Europe, Asia & Russia on www.Glimz.net.

FALL 2009

BUTTERY TOP a new comedy short co-directed by Catherine and Kelly Hayes has been accepted by 22 films festivals as of Sept 2009.

MACUMBA MACABRE, an educational documentary about Afro-Brazilian spirit healing in Rio de Janiero Catherine has shot and edited for professor Kelly Hayes, will be released in 2010 as a companion DVD with Hayes' book HOLY HARLOTS, to be published by the University of California at Berkeley press.

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.

Buttery Top (2009)

Super 8mm, 4 minutes
*co-directed by Kelly Hayes

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

Macumba Macabre (2010)

  • Directed by Kelly Hayes

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

Buttery Top (2009)

Super 8mm, 4 minutes
*co-directed by Kelly Hayes