Cate Carson

Los Angeles, California

Director | Writer & Development at Sensorium Pictures

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Awards

Roadmap Writers Shorts Competition - Finalist
(2022)
Marlyn Mason Award - Rhode Island Int' Film Festival
(2021)
Winner - Stage 32 Short Film Competition
(2021)
Oakville Film Festival - best international short
(2021)
Picture's Up FF - Best Director
(2021)

Emberlight Int. FF - Best Narrative Short / Best Director
(2021)

Chandler Int. FF - Best Short Film
(2021)

FFTG Awards NY - Grand Jury Winner - Best Film, Best Director
(2021)

Australia Film Industry Night Festival - Best Emerging Director
(2021)

Desoto FF - Best Historical Short
(2021)

Stranger Days Ind. FF - Best Director, Best Suspense Short
(2021)

Detroit SheTown FF - Best Cinematography
(2021)

Blackmagic Collective FF - Grand Jury Award
(2020)

Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition
(2017)

Semi-finalist HCF Screenplay Competition x2
(2017)

Winner - Festival For Family Screenplay Comp - Charlotte Sometimes
(2016)

Semi-Finalist - Stage 32 Annual Feature Film Contest
(2016)

Gold Winner - Hollywood Screenplay Contest
(2016)

Top 10 Final Draft Big Break - Charlotte Sometimes
(2016)

Winner - Cannes Screenplay Contest
(2016)

Finalist - USA FF - Cleave
(2016)

Lionsgate Wildcard Winning Director
(2015)

HBO Project Greenlight Top 20 Director/Greenie Award
(2015)

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Credits

The Plumber (2020)
Film Director / Writer
Of Mine (2018)
Film (short) by Sensorium Pictures Director/Writer The Alliance of Women Directors (AWD) teamed with the LA producers of the NPR program, "The Moth" for the inaugural AWD Shoot ‘Em Up Female Filmmaker Series, where you see the evolution of a story to screenplay to film. Six female directors were awarded and given true stories to tell. In "Of Mine", two young sisters are kidnapped by a transient duo from their trailer park and taken to an abandoned mineshaft, where they must escape before they are taken forever.
F_ckit (2017)
Film Director
Snowflake (2017)
Film Director
Cleave (2015 - 2016)
Film (short) by Sensorium Pictures Director Logline: A blue-collar couple living the “American dream” suffer while remaining loyal to a failing and toxic marriage. Two short films: THEM (18 mins) & HIM/HER (28 mins), two perspectives.
HBO's Project Greenlight Semi-Finalist: Whiskey Boys (2015)
Film Director
If Only (2015)
Film Production designer
Twilight Storytellers: Masque (2015)
Film (short) by Sensorium Pictures Director Lionsgate/ #TwilightStories short film top 4 finalist in the national Storytellers competition. Logline: After her transformation, Esme's struggle to overcome her craving for human blood is only intensified by the painful memories of her tragedy-ridden past. In MASQUE, Carlisle helps Esme find hope for the future...and maybe even a family.
Status Unknown (2015)
Film (short) by Hart2Hart Productions/Sensorium Pictures Director The true story of an international, lesbian, married couple who are denied a green card and embark on an activist journey to strike down the federal law, proving #lovewins. Proof of concept short for the feature in development.
Sain't Anthony (2014)
Film Producer
Finnigan's War (2013)
Film Producer
Capture (2012)
Film Producer
My Pretty Maura (2012)
Film Director
Pure
TV Serie Director

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Loglines

Emery Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Family When mysterious events in their sleepy lake town bring an estranged niece, her uncle, and a small creature together, they must reunite it with its family before the thieves who awakened it close in.
The Absolute Action ⋄ Mystery ⋄ Historical ⋄ Western In 1867, the newfound Secret Service is on a mission to eliminate counterfeiting, but soon discover a well-laid plot to bring the entire U.S. economy to its knees.
Charlotte Sometimes Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Family ⋄ Fantasy After losing her mother, a vexed 9 y.o. girl finds a dream machine hidden in her deaf father's workshop, but an unexpected friendship with a quirky boy becomes the real cure to her loneliness.