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Cat Dale

Wildcat

2021 Short Film Contest - Finalist

Cat Dale is a writer and director working on narrative projects focused on institutional trauma and gender perceptions.

Her recent work includes her award-winning scripts, MOUNT PLEASANT (winner of the ScreenCraft Pilot Launch, Featured Script on The Black List, and second-round for the Sundance Episodic Lab), and co-written script BEASTS UNDISCOVERED (Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist & currently being produced in partnership with the Jim Henson Creature Shop & Myriad Pictures). Her two award-winning short films (RUBBER & GLUE and WILDCAT) have been screened nationally and internationally, and she is currently in post-production on her third film.  Most recently, she participated in The Black List & Studio Canal CANNESFILM UNLIMITED writing residency and is currently developing two features, WILDCAT and OBSCURE, PLAIN, & LITTLE.

She is a second-round script reader for the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, reader for Stowe Story Labs, and is on the Sidewrite Screenwriting Jury for the Sidewalk Film Festival.

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin MFA in screenwriting, she is currently a professor at the Montana State University where she adores working with her students in film production.

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