Biography

Graduated from University of Washington with a BA in Acting/Theater, McInnis was Programmer/Publicist for the Seattle International Film Festival for six years while working as a film journalist for various publications including MovieMaker Magazine. She left the festival to pursue freelance writing and independent producing; returning to the festival in 2001 to produce both the Fly Filmmaking Challenge as well as the Fly Film Spare Me (2001) from Director Guinevere Turner.
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A festival programmer, and film strategist/publicist with more than 25 years experience, Kathleen McInnis works with emerging world-cinema filmmakers as they launch careers from the global film festival circuit and cultivate new audiences.

Under her company, See-Through Films LLC, Kathleen designs individual publicity campaigns for each film specific to their goals and expectations. She works to expand filmmaker networks, broaden audience and raise profile for both the films and filmmakers at festivals such as Sundance, Berlin and Toronto.

For nearly 30 years, Kathleen has helped discover emerging filmmakers from around the globe: She was a Lead Programmer, Director of Publicity and Director of Industry Programming at Seattle International Film Festival; Festival Director at Slamdance Film Festival; Festival Director at Palm Springs ShortsFest; Programmer for International Shorts at Toronto Int'l Film Festival and most recently, Director of Programming at Aspen Shorts. She is the Curator of SIFF's New Works-In-Progress Forum.

Kathleen has participated as a festival strategist and project development mentor at the Buenos Aries Labs, Hot Docs Int'l Film Festival (Canada), Koszalin Film Festival for Debut Filmmakers (Poland), CineMart (International Film Festival Rotterdam) and at Talents during the Berlin Film Festival, as well as presented keynote speeches at Winterthur International ShortFilm Festival (Switzerland) and Kreativni Evropa-Media's Intelligent Audience Design (Czech).
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