Biography:

After graduating with a BFA in Film from the SVA-School of Visual arts Kat Rohrer has produced, written and directed both narrative films and documentaries, as well as a wide variety of industrial films and commercials.

Her short film, The Search, won Best Short at the 2005, LA Femme Film Festival. Her 2011 short film, Wantless, was selected for the 2011 Hamptons International Film Festival. Kat has also been the Director of Photography on several feature-length documentaries.

Her first feature documentary, Fatal Promises, an in-depth probe of human trafficking, has been show across the US and Europe in multiple film festivals. Kat’s feature length documentary, Back to the Fatherland, was screened in festivals world wide and  has been theatrically released in Austria, German, and the United States and aired on TV in Austria, Sweden, Finnland, Germany and Israel. Kat’s 2022 short film “Roads Not Taken” traveled the festival circuit, winning several awards. Her debut feature film What a Feeling had its world premiere at BFI Flare in March of 2024 and screened at over 30 festivals around the globe. She is currently developing two TV series with which she has attended the 2023 Torino Next Series Lab as well as the 2023 HerArts Film Lab.