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Featured, Filmmaker

Kath Shelper

Kath is the producer of many celebrated films including Samson & Delilah, which won the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. Most recently she produced Warwick Thornton’s latest film The New Boy and Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel for SeeSaw Films. Her previous feature film Ruben Guthrie opened the 2015 Sydney Film Festival and premiered internationally at London Film Festival. Kath produced The Darkside, a hybrid documentary-drama with Warwick Thornton (2014 Berlin Film Festival), ABC TV feature documentary Tender by artist Lynette Wallworth (AACTA Award Best TV Documentary 2015) and two chapters of The Turning feature film (Tim Winton’s short stories project, Berlin Film Festival 2014), with Warwick Thornton and actress Mia Wasikowska in her directing debut. Mia and Kath also made another short film for the Madly anthology (Tribeca 2016). Kath produced Beck Cole’s debut feature Here I Am, which won Best Dramatic Feature at the 2011 Canadian ImagineNATIVE Film Festival. Kath was the President of community organisation Metro Screen for five years and she has served as a jury member for several film festivals including the Sydney Film Festival competition prize.

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