Location scouting in Southern NM for KAYA, 2018.
Catherine Fordham is a New York-based writer, director, and producer originally from Nova Scotia. Drawn to the subliminal and otherworldly, her boundary-pushing work reflects a lifelong fascination with the driving forces of both our external and internal worlds, frequently using genre as a tool to explore deeper themes.
An actor since age eight, Catherine’s early days working in theatre, television, and film transformed into a passion for writing and directing. A collector of wild characters, her stories come from a childhood surrounded by hippies and spiritual explorers, her time working at a cowboy bar in the Rockies while living in a trailer park at a Buddhist Meditation center, years waitressing at a hole-in-the-wall celebrity hot spot in Greenwich Village, and a brief stint as a chicken farmer.
A high school dropout, Catherine is an alumna of Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School in Munich, Germany, Film at Lincoln Center’s 2019 Artist Academy, and Athena Screenwriting Labs 2020. After a year on the festival circuit, her award-winning short film KAYA premiered on The Future of Film is Female and NoBudge in 2020, and enjoyed a run at Nitehawk Cinema opening for Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale.
Catherine’s short, Consommé, was licensed by AMC’s horror streaming site, SHUDDER, and screened at MoMA as part of The Future of Film is Female series. Best Thing You’ll Ever Do, a short-form mini-series she directed, won Best Short Drama at the HBO-sponsored ITVFest, among other awards. Her current projects include Wild Cry Ha, a thriller set in New Mexico, HEX, an occult TV series + podcast, and Supernova, a psychedelic odyssey set in Nova Scotia.
CONTACT: c@topsaltstudio.com