Kathleen Hepburn

Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She is most noted for her film Never Steady, Never Still, which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017.[1] The film received eight Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, including Best Picture and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for Hepburn.[2]

Not to be confused with Katharine Hepburn.

Kathleen Hepburn
NationalityCanadian
Occupationscreenwriter, film director

Career

Her second full-length feature film, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, was co-directed with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. The film won the $25,000 Best BC Film Award at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival,[3] the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Best Canadian Film and Best Director of a Canadian Film, and the Toronto Film Critics Association's Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. It won three Canadian Screen Awards at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Hepburn and Tailfeathers, and Best Cinematography for Norm Li.[4]

In 2020 she released the short documentary film Perfumed Dreaming, a meditation on the cycle of life which contrasts the recent birth of her sister Megan's first child against the recent death of Kathleen and Megan's mother.[5]

Recognition

Hepburn won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.[6]

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See also

References
  1. "Never Steady, Never Still to hit silver screen". Prince George Citizen, January 11, 2017.
  2. "Mary Kills People, Anne, Ava, Mohawk Girls among nominees at Screen Awards". Canadian Press via Montreal Gazette, January 16, 2018.
  3. "VIFF 2019 BC Spotlight Gala Award Winners" (Press release). Vancouver International Film Festival. 2019-10-05. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  4. Leo Barraclough, "Sophie Deraspe’s ‘Antigone’ Wins Best Film at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 29, 2020.
  5. Pat Mullen, "Now Streaming: Watch Kathleen Hepburn’s First Doc ‘Perfumed Dreaming’". Point of View, April 7, 2020.
  6. "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
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