Catherine Kelleher(II)

Catherine Kelleher is an AWGIE-nominated screenwriter, director and singer/songwriter. She began her career as electronic pop artist Catcall, releasing her debut album, The Warmest Place, in 2012 via Ivy League Records. In 2013, Catherine turned her focus to film and television, co-creating, writing and producing the comedy/drama web series The Casuals. She also worked in-house as an assistant Playmaker (Lovechild, The Code) before freelancing as a script coordinator and writers' room note-taker on series such as Glitch, Janet King, and The Secrets She Keeps. In 2019, Catherine received Screen Australia Enterprise funding to work in development at Lingo Pictures (After the Party, Prosper, Upright, The Secrets She Keeps). From 2021 to 2024 she worked as the Scripted Development Executive at SBS, assisting the commissioning team in developing Safe Home, Erotic Stories, Swift Street, Four Years Later, and worked closely across the SBS Digital Originals initiative (Latecomers, Appetite, Night Bloomers). Catherine's debut short film, Big Bad World (2016), starring Geraldine Viswanathan and featuring a score by David Fleming (The Last of Us), screened at several local and international film festivals, including the Brooklyn Film Festival, San Jose Short Film Festival and St Kilda Film Festival. Her second short film, IMOAN (2023), screened at OutFest LA, SXSW Sydney, Brisbane International Film Festival, Mardi Gras Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, and Revelation Perth International Film Festival, and was nominated for an Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award. In 2019 Catherine and her collaborators received Screen Australia development funding for their drama/comedy series High Rotation, and in 2020 she was selected for the Imagine Impact Australia program. Catherine has several film and television projects in development and is set to direct a third short film later this year.