Kathleen Mullen spent much of her life moving back and forth between
Edmonton and San Francisco, coming to reside in Toronto eight years
ago. She has programmed for thirteen years at film festivals
internationally, including two years at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
and five years as the director of programming at the Inside Out Toronto
Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. She has made two short films:
you wash my skin with sunshine, a Super 8 autobiographical documentary,
and Sleep Lines, a 16mm hand-processed experimental narrative. She is
now working on a doc about the production of asbestos in Canada as part
of her MFA at York University. As both a filmmaker and a curator, she
is interested in the spirit of shorts as an artistic practice in and of
themselves. She is a keen advocate of independent Canadian film- and
video-making and diverse discourses of local, national and
international cinema. She is on the board of the Images Festival of
Independent Film & Video and believes strongly in supporting both
emerging and established talent. She joined the Short Cuts Canada
selection team this year and also curated one of the Future Projections
installations.