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A graduate of the National Film and Television School in England, Cath has won numerous awards on the film festival circuit for her short films and is developing three features. In 2004 Cath won a place on the Cinefondation Residency (a five month Cannes Film Festival residency which selects 5 filmmakers from around the world every year), to develop her first feature film TAYTE AND CODY which won the Northern Lights Big Pitch Prize and is currently in development with Ipso Facto films . Her previous shorts STARCHED and SPIN had significant awards success on the festival circuit (including Canal Plus Best Short Film, Edinburgh Special Jury Award, Outstanding Directorial Achievement,Winterthur, Best Cinematography, Bristol). Her films have screened at major festivals; Berlin, Cannes, Tribecca, South by SouthWest, Edinburgh and SPIN was released theatrically in front of THIRTEEN (Dir Hardwicke) at Curzon cinemas throughout the UK. Her batch of 5 short documentaries under the series NORMSKI TALKING PICTURES were commissioned by Channel 4, and was short listed for the Four Docs/Sheffield prize. Additional work has included A.D and camera work for Mike Figgis (Hotel) . Cath has two other features in development, BED (a fiction film about 5 strangers participating in a ‘Bed-Rest’ space experiment) and BOOSTER FALLING (a documentary about people and space junk). She was recently selected for the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency for Spring 2010 to develop her features. In January 2010 she was the recipient of the Sundance Alfred P Sloan Commissioning prize for Bed. She is also the co-founder of the social entrepreneurship organisation Shooting People (shootingpeople.org) the online social network dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking. Currently has 35,000 members in the UK and USA.