Kath Shelper
Kath Shelper is an Australian film producer. She was the recipient of the 2005 Inside Film Award for Rising Talent.
Her production credits include Confessions of a Headhunter, Plains Empty, Bush Mechanics, Above The Dust Level, and Green Bush. She was a founding member of the film production company Film Depot along with fellow producers Louise Smith and Matthew Dabner. Kath now works out of her own production company Scarlett Pictures.
She has just completed her first feature film, Samson and Delilah directed and filmed by Warwick Thornton, starring Rowan MacNamara and Marissa Gibson and featuring Mitjili Napanangka Gibson. The film premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival, February 2009 and won the Camera d'Or for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2009.[1]
In 2015, Shelper produced the film Ruben Guthrie.
Selected filmography
- Samson and Delilah (2009)
- Here I Am (2011)
References
- The World Today - Aboriginal film maker honoured at Cannes ABC Online - 25 May