Kathleen Hepburn

Kathleen Hepburn is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim 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
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, film director

Hepburn garnered further praise for co-directing and co-writing The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) with Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. The film premiered at the 69th annual Berlin Film Festival and won three Canadian Screen Awards at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Hepburn and Tailfeathers.[3] The film also won the Toronto Film Critics Association's $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.[4]

Career

Hepburn first attracted acclaim 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] Hepburn won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017.[5] She was also nominated for the Directors Guild of Canada's DGC Discovery Award.[6]

In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside Halima Ouardiri, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White, Asia Youngman, Tiffany Hsiung, and Kristina Wagenbauer.[7]

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,[8] 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.[3] The film also won the Toronto Film Critics Association's $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.[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.[9]

Filmography
Year Title Director Writer Producer Ref.
2007 Kettle (short) Yes Yes Yes
2010 It's Not as If We Haven't Been Here for a While... (short) Yes Yes Yes [10]
2011 A Land That Forgets (short) Yes Yes Yes
2014 The Housekeeper (short) No Yes No
2015 Benjamin (short) No Yes No
2015 Never Steady, Never Still (short) Yes Yes Yes [11]
2017 Never Steady, Never Still Yes Yes No [11]
2017 His Name is Willy (short) No Yes No
2018 Bathroom Rules (short) No Yes No
2018 Honey Bee No Yes No
2019 The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open Yes Yes No
2020 Perfumed Dreaming (documentary short) Yes No No [9]

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. Leo Barraclough, "Sophie Deraspe’s ‘Antigone’ Wins Best Film at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 29, 2020.
  4. "Toronto film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open' - CityNews Toronto". toronto.citynews.ca. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  5. "Never Steady, Never Still takes the big prizes at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards". The Georgia Straight, January 9, 2018.
  6. Barry Hertz, "Directors Guild of Canada reveals long list for Discovery Award". The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017.
  7. Lauren Malyk, "Canadian Academy selects eight for second annual mentorship program". Playback, August 20, 2018.
  8. "VIFF 2019 BC Spotlight Gala Award Winners" (Press release). Vancouver International Film Festival. October 5, 2019. Archived from the original on October 7, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
  9. Pat Mullen, "Now Streaming: Watch Kathleen Hepburn’s First Doc ‘Perfumed Dreaming’". Point of View, April 7, 2020.
  10. "THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN". Reel Canada. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  11. Peebles, Frank (January 11, 2017). "Never Steady, Never Still to hit silver screen". Prince George Citizen. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
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