Education
Kat Candler graduated in Creative Writing at Florida State University and now lives in Austin, Texas.
director screenwriter film producer
Kat Candler graduated in Creative Writing at Florida State University and now lives in Austin, Texas.
She has credits as a director, writer, producer and editors Kat Candler is an award winning writer/ director Kat"s follow up feature, Jumping off Bridges, screened at South by Southwest, Jacksonville Film Festival and Cine World Film Festival.
Her films have played on public broadcasting service (Public Broadcasting Service), International Finance Corporation, at suicide prevention and mental health conferences, and in theaters across the country.
Kat Candler participated twice in the Independent Filmmaker Project(French Institute of Petroleum ) Market"s Emerging Narrative Section. Her screenplays have also placed as a finalist in other competitions including the Chesterfield Fellowship Competition, Sundance Screenwriters" Laboratory, and Slamdance Screenplay Competition.
Kat Candler currently teaches as a Lecturer in the Department of Radio-Television-Film (RTF) department at the University of Texas. Kat Candler’s films have played at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Houston Museum of Modern Art, The National Institutes of Health, and on Public Broadcasting Service. Her feature, "Hellion" starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, played in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released through International Finance Corporation Films.
Hellion was a Sundance Creative Producing Laboratory participant, in addition to San Francisco Film Society, and Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient.
Candler was recently a Sundance Institute Women's Initiative Fellow and second time San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient for her upcoming "Untitled Metal Project". She recently completed the short film "The Rusted for Ron Howard" and Canon’s Project Imagination starring Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone. Interview with Austinist.