Kathryn Golden, Producer/Director/Editor is an award-winning filmmaker with international productions and a founding partner of Searchlight Films, Berkeley, California.
Golden directed SANTOS–Skin to Skin, a portrait of seven-time Grammy nominee, master Latin Jazz percussionist John Santos, acknowledged a “keeper of the Afro-Caribbean flame.” SANTOS–Skin to Skin received a World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival and awarded a MVFF “Audience Favorite” at The Mill Valley Film Festival. Other productions include:
Producer/Director Zenju’s Path (BOS/PBS, Netherlands) commissioned documentary about the first female African-American Buddhist priests calling others to Zen with her drum; Producer/Director Moments of Illumination – Lawrence Jordan (BOS/PBS, Netherlands) commissioned documentary of the Bay Area animator/founder of avant-garde cinema in America; Producer/Director/Editor, Across Time and Space German co-production broadcast documentary about the Bondy family surviving Nazi Germany to preserve their pioneering educational ideas in America; Producer/Editor And Still We Dance, (PBS) a one hour portrait of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; Producer/Editor, Kitka & Davka in Concert (PBS); Producer/Director/Editor, American Treasure – The Folk Art of Joaquim Miguel Almeida New England regional PBS. Awards include, National Endowment for The Arts production grants, National Black Programming Consortium; the Polaroid Foundation; Massachusetts and Connecticut State Humanities grants, San Francisco Grants for The Arts, the San Francisco Advertising Club’s Awards of Excellence and an Isadora Duncan (IZZY) Award.
Kathryn Golden is currently producing Ann Petry and The James Family Letters, a feature documentary about Ann Petry, the ground-breaking author of The Street and the first African-American woman to sell more than a million copies of a novel.