CRITICAL
OVERVIEW:
Katrina's films are stamped with her
unique sense of comedy, and observation of everyday behaviour.
They embrace a bent sense of humour; often telling bleak stories
with an unassuming deadpan style that results in work rich in
subtext and charm.
Katrina garners
honest performances from her actors, regularly using improvisation
to develop the possibilities within a script. Her films tell stories
that have the ability to both make you laugh and take your breath
away. She is interested in exploring the possibilities of performance
and the details in small moments, subtext, symmetry, vulnerability,
contradiction and different kinds of humour.
Katrina has
a number of film and television and interactive projects in development
and welcomes contact
from writers,
new media artists and producers.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Jam
Scam
(1996, 5 mins, 16mm)
Vernon
– The Visitor (1996, 1 min, video, Animation)
Vernon
– On Cloud 9 (1997, 1 min, video, Animation)
Clownface
(1997, 1 min, 16mm)
Crazy
Richard (2001, 64 mins, video)
Co-directed with Dean Francis
Nice
Guy (2002, 4 mins, video)
The
Referees (2003, 7 mins, video)
Wanderlust
(2004, 50 mins, Super 8/Video/Digital Art)
Meta4
(2005, 1 min 30 secs, MicroMovie/Mixed Media)
N
for Nelly (2006, 6 min 42 sec, video)
As Producer, etc:
Teenage
Portraits Dir: Greta Morton
(Producer.
1994, 5 mins, 16mm)
Love You
Baby Dir: Jonathan Keys
(Production
Manager. 1995, 10 mins, 16mm, VCA)
Mr Bawky
Dir: David Carlin
(Associate
Producer. 1996, 18 mins, 16mm, VCA)
Dawn
of the DMF’s Dirs: Darrell Martin & Chris Summers
(Associate
Producer/Post Production Supervisor. 1997-1999, 87 mins, Super
8)
Standing
Up Dir: Goran Nilsson
(Associate
Producer. 1999, 26 x 30 mins TV Series, ABC TV)
Ziggy’s
Fan Dir: Gerard Cogley
(Producer/DOP/Editor.
2002, 4 mins, video)
Hudson,
Logan & Carter On the Case Dir: Nicholas Bufalo
(Producer/Co-Writer/Editor.
2002, 7 mins, video)
No
Mail
Dir: Kenn and Simon MacRae. Prod: Alex Mooney
(Writer. 2006, 7 mins, 35mm, Project Greenlight)
Awards:
Teenage
Portraits
1994 Best Experimental Film, Uppsala International Film Festival,
Sweden.
1994
Creative Excellence in an Australian Short, Melbourne Int. Film
Fest.
1994
Filmmaking Craft Award, St Kilda Film Festival
1994
Highly Commended, Dendy Awards, Sydney Film Festival.
Vernon
– The Visitor
1996 Best Animated Film, Bathurst Film & Video Festival.
1996
Daddy Cool Prize for the Coolest Film, Riverina Flickers Short
Film Festival.
Hudson,
Logan & Carter On the Case
2002 Best Screenplay, Film Eclectic.
N for
Nelly
2006 Audience Choice Award, Love Your Work, Open Channel Members'
Screenings
2006 Best Cinematography, Love Your Work, Open Channel Members'
Screenings
2006 Best Short-Short, Yum Productions Award, Victoria Festival
of Motion Image
2006 Short Filmmaker Rising Star, FNI(A) Awards
2006 Best Original Music Score, FNI(A) Awards
Selected Screenings:
Aspen Shortsfest,
Colorado, USA
Australian
Centre for the Moving Image (Permanent Collection), Australia
Australian Film Weekend, 16 of the best shorts from 10 years of
Tropfest, Toronto, Canada
Australian International Film Festival (AIFF), Melbourne, Australia
Bayside Film Festival, Victoria, Australia
Bangkok
International Art Film Festival, Thailand
Bilbao
Documentary & Short Film Festival, Spain
Brisbane
International Film Festival, Australia
Byron Bay Film Festival, Australia
The Canberra Festival - Movies By Moonlight, ACT, Australia
Canberra Short Film Festival, Sweetened Condensed Cinema
thecomedychannel Film Festival, Melbourne Int. Comedy Festival,
Melbourne, Australia
Dublin Underground Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Experimenta Media Arts Short, Sharp & Very Current, Melb. Australia
Expresión En Corto International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
Festival
Dei Popoli, Florence
Festival
MiX Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Flickerfest
Short Film Festival, Australia
Lisboa
Festival de Cinema Gay e Lésbico, Lisbon, Portugal, Spain
London Australian Film Festival at the Barbican, London, UK
London
Comedy Festival, Short Film Screenings at Curzon, London, UK
London
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (LLGF), London, UK
Mardi
Gras Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
Melbourne
International Film Festival, Australia
Melbourne
Underground Film Festival (MUFF), Australia
Newtown Flicks, NSW, Australia
Palm
Springs International Festival of Short Film, USA
Philadelphia
International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Philadelphia USA
Portobello Film Festival (Opening Night), London, UK
Project Greenlight, Screentime, Australia
Siemens MicroMovie Short Film Finals, International Competition
Sao
Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil
SCINEMA Festival of Science Film, Festival & Tour, Australia
St
Kilda Film Festival (inc. Opening Night & National Tour), Australia
Sydney
Film Festival, Dendy Awards, Sydney Australia
Toronto
Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada
Tropfest
Finalist Screenings, Sydney, Australia
Uppsala
International Film Festival, Sweden
SELECT
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
"Spliced"
Interview with Katrina Mathers & Dean Francis by Walter Bird
& Anastasia Safioleas, Melbourne Tribe, Sept 2000
"Series
is the Flipside to Labor" Interview with Katrina Mathers
by Adam Zwar, Herald Sun Sunday, Nov 12, 2000
"They’ll
Flip Your Sides" Interview with Katrina Mathers, Fiona Harris
& Gerard Cogley by Felicity Allen, Herald Sun, May
1, 2002
"Contradictions"
Short documentary about Katrina Mathers. New Wave Productions/Deakin
University. 2002
"Kissin’
Crazy Richard" Cover & "Crazy Richard Helps Save
Mardi Gras" Feature, Queensland Pride, Issue 167,
Jan 24, 2003
"Crazy
is as Crazy Does" Feature by Cloe Flynn, State of
the Arts, Feb 12, 2003
"Going
Troppo & Giving Up Their Day Jobs" Interview with Katrina
Mathers & Holly Salmons by Simon Kidd, Emerald Hill Times,
Issue 6, Feb 19, 2003
"B
Happening: Can I Shoot You" Interview with Katrina Mathers,
B Magazine, B Interactive Online, Feb 2003
"Radar:
Crazy Richard" Feature by Gina Flaxman, IF Magazine,
No.52, Mar 2003. p.20
"St Kilda
Filmmakers" Interview by Leigh Whannell, In Entertainment,
Network 10, May 25, 2003
"On the Stage"
Interview by Natalie Trombetta. MX Night Out Profile. Feb
2004
"Gone
Troppo" Behind the Scenes Tropfest documentary. Propeller
Productions March 2004
"Movie News"
NW New Weekly. March 29, 2004
"Brilliant
Peak Into Oft-Overlooked Art Form" article about Aspen Shortsfest,
IndieWire, On the Scene, April 17, 2004
"Film-makers
Answer the Call for Mobile Movies" Herald Sun. May 23,
2005. p.15
"No. 4 Rings
a Bell" Herald Sun Entertainment. May 24, 2005. p.59
"Trouble"
Cover Art, still from "Meta4" In Trouble Street Press Pocket
Magazine. Issue 26. July 2006
"Pocket
Cinema" by Josh Jennings. The Age Green Guide. LiveWire
feature article about mobile phone filmmaking. August 17, 2006
"Movies for
Mobiles" by Louisa Hearn. The Age & Sydney Morning Herald.
September 20, 2006
"What's in
a Nelly?" Herald Sun, September 25, 2006
"Portable
Interview with Melbourne filmmaker Katrina Mathers" Portable
Film Festival interview posted to YouTube, October 2006
"Project
Greenlight" (Series II Australia) Behind the Scenes for the
MacRae Brothers making of: "No Mail". Screentime. Nov-Dec,
2006
"Versatility
conquers all" by Alison Aprhys. The Weekend Australian.
Career One Cover Feature. March 10-11, 2007
©
Long Shot Film Entertainment, March 2007.
Long
Shot Film Entertainment –
Katrina Mathers’ website
Contact
Katrina Mathers
Management: Stacey
Testro International
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