KATHLEEN CUMMINS – NATP 1995-96

"The NATP was a wonderful, positive and important experience for me. I was extremely fortunate to be brought onto the post-production team of David Cronenberg's Crash, and to be mentored by award-winning picture editor Ron Sanders."

Kathleen Cummins

Kathleen Cummins, B.A., M.F.A., is an independent filmmaker, writer and media arts educator. She has written and directed three short dramatic films. Emer, Banished to the Waves of the Sea and The Seduction of Mary Day have been screened and broadcast nationally and internationally. Her short The Seduction of Mary Day was nominated for 3 Golden Sheaf Awards at the Yorkton Film Festival, and was later developed into a feature screenplay by Shaftsbury/SK Films. Over the past eleven years Kathleen has worked as a filmmaker, a picture editor, a screenwriter, a film critic (Take One: Film and Television in Canada), a story editor, and a media arts educator (Sheridan College, Department of Film at York University). Kathleen's work has received funding from Telefilm, the Harold Greenberg Script Development Fund, the Ontario Arts Council and the National Film Board of Canada. Recently, Kathleen completed a short documentary, Ode to the Midwives (2005) and a short drama Lost Things.

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