Catherine Gund

Director

Biography

USA

An Emmy Award-nominated producer, director, writer and organizer, Catherine started the production company Aubin Pictures in 1996. Her media work — which focuses on arts and culture, sexuality and gender, reproductive health and rights, and other social justice issues — has screened around the world in festivals, on PBS and cable television, at community-based organizations, universities, and museums. Her productions include Motherland Afghanistan; A Touch of Greatness; Making Grace<; On Hostile Ground; Object Lessons; Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance; When Democracy Works; Positive: Life with HIV; Sacred Lies Civil Truths; Not Just Passing Through; Among Good Christian Peoples; Keep Your Laws Off My Body; Bird in the Hand; Cuz It’s Boy; What’s on Your Plate?; as well as work with the collectives DIVA TV (co-founder) and Paper Tiger Television. She was the founding director of BENT TV, the video workshop at the Hetrick-Martin Institute for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth. She was on the founding boards of Iris House, The Sister Fund, The HIV Law Project, Reality Dance Company, and Working Films and served as a trustee for the George Gund Foundation. Catherine Gund co-founded the Third Wave Foundation, created to address the need to have a fund for young feminist activists.

Filmography

Among Good Christian Peoples (1991)
Bird in the Hand (1992)
Cuz It's Boy (1994)
When Democracy Works (1997)
Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (1998)
Making Grace (2004)
What’s on Your Plate? (2009)
Rhyme Time (2009)
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (2014)
Chavela (2017)
Dispatches from Cleveland (2017)
Aggie (2020)

Films Curated by AFF