Kate Kroll

Award winning director and producer, Kate Kroll, has a passion for sharing people's stories and creating artistic, thought-provoking projects. Based out of Vancouver and Edmonton, her work has screened around the world as well as Air Canada, Bravo, Super Channel, Knowledge Network, Vision TV, APTN, TIFF & VIFF. In 2009, Kate was awarded the Director's Guild of Canada Kickstart Grant, which allowed her to create the short film, Shi-shi-etko. The film, a story about a young girl leaving home for residential school, touched many people and took home the award for "Best Drama" at the imagineNATIVE Media Festival 2010 amongst numerous others. Shortly after, Kate teamed up with Make Believe Media to produce and co-direct the feature documentary, No Fun City, a passionate tale about a tight-knit music scene and its ongoing battle for a place to call home. The film garnered a large amount of media attention including Rolling Stone, Q with Jian Ghomeshi, The Huffington Post, McLeans Magazine and won "Best Documentary" at the Victoria Film Festival 2011. Most recently, she directed the short comedy, Happily Ever Evil, which has been a hit amongst the online community as well as two episodes of Knowledge Network's Take Me Home, a documentary series profiling BC-based artists and sports figures about what 'home' means to them. A music lover, Kate has created music videos for Chirsta Couture and Jody Glenham. Kate recently finished post-production on a one-hour documentary entitled Path of Pilgrims, for Vision TV/Zoomer Media. The film chronicles Tibetans in exile in Nepal and Northern India and features interviews with Tenzin Choegyal, the brother of His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama. She currently has a feature film in development - a comedy, ONE.LAST.SHOT, and is in pre-production for a Canada Arts Council film entitled Tummo. Kate's experience as an associate producer, production manager and post coordinator have helped her create projects with a high production value. Active in Vancouver's film and television community, Kate is a member of Women in Film and TV Vancouver and sits on this year's film festival selection jury board. She recently completed the Women In the Director's Chair workshop at The Banff Centre.