Catharine Axley
Catharine Axley (2021) is an independent documentary filmmaker and educator. Her most recent film, “Attla,” is a feature documentary co-produced by ITVS and Vision Maker Media that aired on Independent Lens in 2019. “Attla” is the winner of Best Documentary Feature at the 44th American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, and a selectee of the 2020-2021 American Film Showcase program through the U.S. State Department. Her films have played at festivals including the San Francisco International Film Festival, DOC NYC, Harlem International Film Festival, Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival and the United Nations Association Film Festival. She was a Regional Finalist for the 2014 Student Academy Awards, an official nominee for the David L. Wolper Award at the 2015 International Documentary Association Awards and a recipient of Best Indigenous Film at the 2019 BendFilm Festival. She holds an M.F.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in History and Ethnicity, Race & Migration from Yale University. She taught film at the University of Kentucky and Spelman College, and now teaches at Penn State University.
As a Logan fellow, Catharine will work on a feature documentary film that takes viewers on a cinematic journey around the world to consider paradoxes at the heart of the cruise ship industry.