Kat Cole is a Bay-Area based director and producer working in film and live performance.
She works as an Associate Producer for a variety of independent documentarians throughout the Bay, including with Academy and Emmy award-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman of Telling Pictures. Recent projects include the Oscar-nominated End Game, State of Pride for Youtube Red and Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice for CNN.
She was the Associate Producer for From Baghdad to The Bay, which received 6 festival awards including the jury prize for Best Documentary at Cinequest, and Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly which received Best Feature Documentary at the Nevada City Film Festival and the Audience Award at BendFilm.
Her personal works invoke subtlety and spectacle through film, performance and drag. Her short films have screened in over 25 festivals including Hot Docs, NewFest, CAAMfest, Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and Outfest’s Proud Picnic. Her short narrative Maybe she was awarded Best Bay Area Director from the Coven Film Festival.
She is a producer of the Black X Film Festival, an online festival centering works by Black Creatives. The festival airs this September 25 - 27, 2020.