Kathleen Hepburn earned a BFA in Film production from Simon Fraser university and went on to get a Masters degree in creative writing at the University of Guelph. She is a 2014 alumna of the Canadian Film Centres Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Writers Lab. Her work usually focuses on landscape and the natural world not just as backdrops to her stories but as a protagonists in them. Her short films have screened at festivals in Canada, the United States and South America. In 2017, Hepburn took home the Sea to Sky Award at the 36th annual Vancouver Film Festival for her feature Never Steady Never Still. The award recognizes the work of a female key creative on a British Columbia produced feature or short film and includes a $20,000 prize from Telus. She also won the BC Emerging Filmmaker Award which comes with a $7500 cash prize sponsored by the Union of BC Performers/ACTRA and a $10,000 equipment credit from William F. White as well as the Emerging Canadian Director Award and $2000 from the Directors Guild of Canada. Kathleen Hepburn is the cofounder of Glass Curtain Pictures and cowrote and co-directed the 2019 feature The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.
We list her credits as a Director first.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Kettle (2007, short)
It’s Not as If We Haven’t Been Here for a While… (2010, short)
A Land That Forgets (2011, short)
Never Steady, Never Still (2015, short)
Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (co-director, 2019)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
Kettle (2007, short)
It’s Not as If We Haven’t Been Here for a While… (2010, short)
A Land That Forgets (2011, short)
The Housekeeper (2014, short)
Never Steady, Never Still (2015, short)
Benjamin (2015, short)
His Name Is Willy (2017, short)
Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
Bathroom Rules (2018, short)
Honey Bee (2018)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (co-director, co-writer, 2019)
Credits as a Producer:
Kettle (2007, short)
It’s Not as If We Haven’t Been Here for a While… (2010, short)
Moving Slowly (Associate producer, 2011, short)
A Land That Forgets (2011, short)
Jimbo (co-producer, 2013, documentary, short)
Never Steady, Never Still (2015, short)
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