the Flatland Film Festival
August 10 - 12, 2006
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Panel Participant - Kat Candler

Kat Candler, who has been called “the nicest filmmaker that ever was,” made a name for herself in the Texas film scene when her first feature, cicadas, premiered at the 2000 Austin Film Festival and won the audience award. Candler wrote and directed jumping off bridges (2005), the Flatland Film Festival’s Friday night invitational feature. Candler received the 2005 Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund Grant for this film. Her latest script, Brain Brawl, was selected for the 2004 AFP Market’s Emerging Narrative Section, won the Grand Prize at the 2005 Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay competition and is currently under development.
Candler graduated from Florida State University in 1996 with a degree in creative writing and a newfound love for storytelling. While at FSU, she got roped in to working on several film school projects. Working as a script supervisor on a friend’s thesis film, she fell in love with making movies. Sitting in the corner watching the director work with actors and the gaffer setting up lights, she became obsessed with learning to make films. In 1997, after pouring through an Austin Film Society brochure and doing some research on the burgeoning Austin film scene, Candler decided to make the big move to Texas, where she’s resided ever since.
Other films to Candler’s credit include Roberta Wells (2004), a short film that premiered at the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival that was chosen for that festival’s compilation of shorts. Candler was one of the 50 finalists in the Chesterfield Fellowship Competition and was a semi-finalist in the 2002 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab.

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