Filmmaker Kat Candler talks Aaron Paul & "Hellion"
Kat Candler is an American independent filmmaker. She has credits as a director, writer, producer and film editor. Kat Candler graduated in Creative Writing at Florida State University and now lives in Austin, Texas.
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Career
Kat Candler’s award winning feature Hellion starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, played in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically through IFC Films. Hellion was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab participant and San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient. Candler was a 2015 Sundance Institute Women’s Initiative Fellow and second time San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient. In 2015 Candler led the Canon Project Imagination campaign by writing and directing the short film The Rusted executive produced by Ron Howard and starring Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone. Candler's work in television includes directing four episodes of Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey's highly acclaimed Queen Sugar, an episode of 12 Monkeys and overseeing Season 2 of Queen Sugar as the producing director.
Awards
2014 Sundance Institute Women’s Initiative Fellow
2014 San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant, Untitled Black Metal Project
2014 deadCenter Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Hellion
2014 Sundance Film Festival Nomination Grand Jury Prize, Hellion
2014 SXSW Gamechanger Award Special Mention, Hellion
2014 Humanitas Prize Nomination, Hellion
2014 Dallas International Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Hellion
2013 Austin Film Grant, Hellion
2013 San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant, Hellion
2013 Best Narrative Short, deadCenter Film Festival, Black Metal
2013 Grand Jury Prize, Dallas International Film Festival, Black Metal
2012 No Borders IFP Participant, Hellion
2012 Best Short Film, Cine Chicks Film Festival, Hellion
2012 Texas Filmmakers Production Fund Recipient, Black Metal
2012 Best Live Action Short, BAMKids, Love Bug
2012 Best Live Action Short, Children's Film Festival Seattle, Love Bug
2011 IFP Emerging Narrative Participant, Nikki is a Punk Rocker
2011 Best Short, Festival Internacional de Cine Para Ninos, Love Bug
2010 2nd Place Jury Prize, Chicago's Children's Film Festival, Love Bug
2010 Best Florida Short Film, Jacksonville Film Festival, Love Bug
2010 semi-finalist, Austin Film Festival, Never Date a Teen Idol
2010 Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival, Audience Award, Love Bug
2009 Austin Film Festival Audience Award, Love Bug
2009 Official Participant in the Tribeca All Access Program, The Spider in the Bathtub
2007 Austin Chronicle Cover Story
2007 Austin Breakout Filmmaker, Austin American Statesman
Filmography
Queen Sugar Season Two (Director 201 and 207), OWN Network
Queen Sugar Season Two (Producing Director Season 2), OWN Network
12 Monkeys (Director 306), SyFy
Queen Sugar (Director 108 and 109), Harpo Productions