Director / Producer/ Content Creator / Media Experience Designer

Katherine Sweetman is a director, content creator, and commercial producer with national TV commercial spots broadcast on major networks and across major streaming platforms. Her team’s Documentaries have screened theatrically in major film festivals and been shown in museums all over the world. She currently works as an independent producer in branded content for entities such as Vice, Smuggler and Anomaly, for major clients including the NFL, the US Army, Indeed.com, New York Life, and many more.

From 2009-2014, she produced, directed and edited 3D and 4k content for film and television distribution at Passmore Lab, where she created and directed the award wining series, Road to the Cage 3D, a tell-all sports documentary series on amateur cage fighting and a short form series Extreme Culture 3D.

Katherine moonlights as an adjunct university instructor teaching courses on visual culture and media at colleges and universities including The University of California, San Diego; San Diego State University; California State University, San Marcos and International Technological University.

Katherine has an MFA in Film and TV Production from The School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California (2018); a second MFA in Visual and Performing Arts from The University of California, San Diego (2008); a BA in Arts and Technology from California State University; a certificate from the New School University, NYC.

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She has worked professionally in content creation for over a decade and participated in a variety of areas of production:

-Directed/shot/edited an award-winning documentary film in Vietnam with the Ho Chi Minh Circus about a bipolar aerialist -- High Flying Jade.

-Directing and selling a documentary series on amateur cage fighting to Comcast/Time Warner/Brighthouse Networks -- Road to the Cage.

-Co-writing a recently produced narrative feature film -- The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer.

-Directing and Creating a short form 3D series for PassmoreLab -- Extreme Culture.

-Working professionally in VFX for shows like Ray Donovan and The Orville -- see: vfx reel.

-Directing, Developing and Editing pitch pilots, sizzle reels and teasers for a number of companies on topics like: strippers, penguins, the fashion industry in Paris.

-Creating Video Gallery and Museum experiences and video installations 2008-2014

-Collaborating on Activist Art Projects like installing a "Freephone" in Tijuana for migrants to use after begin deported.

-Directing/shooting a behin- the- scenes SXSW Rockumentary on Black Needle Noise collective.

-Touring Jamaica as corporate videographer with Canon

 

Directing, Editing, Producing, Director of Photography/Camera Op reels available upon request.