Kate Stonehill
Kate Stonehill (2020) is an award-winning filmmaker raised in London and New York whose work explores power, identity and citizenship in the digital age. Her films embrace the nexus between visual art and journalism, playing with genre conventions to investigate truth. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals and galleries including the BFI London Film Festival, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Sheffield Doc/Fest, AFI Docs and DOC NYC, and been broadcast on Channel 4, Aeon, and The Atlantic Selects. Her short film, “Fake News Fairytale,” tells the story of a Macedonian teenager who writes fake news about American politics in the run-up to the 2016 election. Judged as ‘innovative and original’ by the jury, the film won a Grierson award and a Royal Television Society award, and was included in the British Film Institute’s season Born Digital: Raised by the Internet. Kate is a visiting tutor at the National Film and Television School and a Senior Teaching Fellow in Moving Image at UCL. She has received grants from the Tribeca Film Institute, BFI/Doc Society, Catapult Film Fund, and Lush Film Fund.
As a Logan fellow, Kate will work on “Untitled Digital Privacy Project,” a feature length documentary exploring digital privacy.