Screenwriting Master Class with Kathleen Hepburn
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | 3:30 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Please join us for a Screenwriting Master Class with 丁香园AV alumnus , co-presented by the SCA Film Area and the .
Biography
Kathleen Hepburn is a writer/director based on the unceded territory of the x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), Skwxw煤7mesh (Squamish) and s蓹lilw蓹ta涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her debut feature, NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017 and was awarded Best Canadian Film and Best Director by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, as well as Special Jury Prize at the Dublin International Film Festival. It went on to be nominated for eight Canadian Screen Academy Awards including Best Picture. Her sophomore feature, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN (co-written and co-directed by Elle-M谩ij谩 Tailfeathers) premiered at Berlinale in 2019, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Festival du Nouveau Cin茅ma, an honourable mention for Best Canadian Feature at TIFF '19, and the Toronto Film Critics Association Rogers Best Canadian Feature Prize. The film won 3 Canadian Screen Awards, including Achievement in Directing and Original Screenplay and is in distribution with Array Releasing. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, and a BFA in Film Production from the Universities of Guelph and Simon Fraser respectively.