Katherine F. Wright
Credits Include: "Call Me Kuchu","Lumo".
Katherine Fairfax Wright is the co-director, editor, and cinematographer of CALL ME KUCHU (2012), the story of the last year in the life of the first openly gay man in Uganda. The film won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary, the Cinema Fairbindet prize, and took second place in the Audience Award at its Berlin Film Festival premiere, and was awarded Best International Feature at Hot Docs. Wright has worked with Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III, and Fellipe Barbosa. She produced GABI ON THE ROOF IN JULY (2010) with Sophia Takal, and associate-produced Perlmutt and Walker’s documentary LUMO (P.O.V., 2007), as well as Perlmutt’s LES VULNERABLES. Wright has worked in a producing role on several other films and is an award-winning photographer. She is a 2012 Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow, an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab and recipient of the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
