Katherine Cecil Pro

Katherine Cecil is a British-born New Orleans filmmaker whose work focuses on politics, culture, and social justice. Documentary, news, and television work includes, among others, NatGeo, BBC, AP, Al Jazeera, Democracy Now!, and Soledad O’Brien/Starfish Media Group. Katherine produced a narrative short, Gauge (2008, New York Film Festival), and her documentary Race (2010) screened at MVAAFF, Bermuda, Roxbury, and NOFF, was a finalist for both the Saatchi & Saatchi “Nothing is Impossible Producer’s Award” and NOFF’s “Louisiana Filmmaker’s Award”, and won “HBO Best Documentary Award” at MVAAFF. Katherine co-produced The Experiment (Best Documentary, 2011, NOFF), and she was field producer and associate producer on the PBS/LPB documentary Lindy Boggs: Steel & Velvet (2006).

In 2013, Katherine co-founded with Dr. Raynard Sanders the multi-platform project The Claiborne Avenue History Project (The CAHP), about the 300-year history of one of America’s oldest Black main streets devastated by Federal interstate construction, and their film Claiborne Revisited [working title], is now in post-production (2024-2028).

Between 2009-2017 Katherine organized conferences in Oslo, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, and Berlin for The New York Review of Books Foundation on humanism; economics; higher education; the Middle East; China; multiculturalism; migration, citizenship & free speech; power, privacy & the Internet; technology and AI; Tony Judt; and Stravinsky-Balanchine. She holds degrees from University College London (B.A. in English Literature), University of New Orleans (M.A., Communications), Tulane University (M.A., Southern Literature), and City & Guilds of London Art School (Foundation, Art & Design).