Kate Vinen

Background

About Kate Vinen

Kate Vinen is a Sydney-based writer and director in fiction and documentary storytelling. She completed a Graduate Certificate in Directing at AFTRS (2010), and a Masters of Documentary Directing at AFTRS (2018-2020). Her Masters thesis is titled ‘Director as Shaman: Documentary as a Healing Medium for Subject and Audience’ and explores ways of capturing the invisible on screen. Films Kate has directed or produced have screened at the Sydney Film Festival (Australia), St Kilda Film Festival (Australia), Mardi Gras Queer Screen Film Festival (Australia),The Blake Art Prize (Australia), The John Fries Award (Australia), Dhaka Art Summit (Bangladesh), Les Rencontres International (France), Asia Pacific Triennial 8 (Australia), Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Salento International Film Festival (Italy) and Adelaide Shorts Film Festival (Australia). In 2019 Kate was recipient of a AFTRS & SCCI (Sherman Centre for Culture & Ideas) commission and an ARTS8 (Australian Roundtable for Arts Training Excellence) recipient and in 2020 she was the recipient of a WIFT (Women in Film & Television) Mentorship Program. In 2022 she was a recipient of the Leading Lights program at Australian International Documentary Conference and PlayLab's Director's Lab with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the Amazon.