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Request a demoNamed HBO’s “40 Under 40” documentary filmmaker in 2021 and Harvard Kennedy School’s “Emerging Global Leader” of 2024, amongst other accolades. A former international aid worker, startup founder, and mindfulness trainer with experience in 21 countries, Catherine has directed/produced character-driven docs featured on/at Tribeca Film Festival, IDFA, The Atlantic, NatGeo, Channel 4 (UK), Channel NewsAsia, U.N. Peace Week, museums, embassies, and universities (where she has also guest lectured). A graduate of Yale and Harvard on full scholarships, Catherine currently splits her time between Mexico and the U.S. but is open to travel to tell emotionally rich, socially relevant stories.
Produced for Channel NewsAsia
Part of a series on elderly poverty in Asia. Half of South Koreans over 65 live in poverty. With an allowance of 200,000KRW/month (US$180), and criteria disqualifying those with children (assumed caretakers), critics say the old-age pension isn't enough. How did a generation, responsible for turning Korea into one of the world's strongest economies, end up having to pick cardboard to survive?
Director and Producer, short documentary following a Juilliard-trained violinist's heart-wrenching attempt to realize a joint concert by North and South Korean musicians at their highly militarized border. Selected to screen at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and the United Nations in Geneva; streaming on The Atlantic and other platforms globally.
Producer, Channel 4 Unreported World episode "North Korea's Reality TV Stars." From the set of a hit South Korean talk show that has made refugees from the north into celebrities, to the streets of Gangnam and to first day of university, we follow two young female defectors, who fled for very different reasons, as they befriend each other and reveal what life was like under Kim Jong Un.
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