Kate Stonehill is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in London. Her work brings a visually inventive approach to questions of power and citizenship in the digital age, investigating the technologies and systems that shape our lives.

Her debut feature documentary, Phantom Parrot (CPH:DOX, Sheffield Doc/Fest), unravels a secret U.K. government surveillance programme and follows a human rights activist as he is prosecuted under terror laws for refusing to hand over his passwords at the border. Supported by BFI Doc/Society, Tribeca Film Institute and Catapult Film Fund, Phantom Parrot received a four-star review in the Guardian, screened in the Houses of Parliament, and was released in cinemas across the U.K. before being acquired by Tribeca Films. It is now available on Apple TV, Amazon Prime, BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema.

Kate's short films have screened at leading international film festivals and galleries, and been featured on Vimeo Staff Pick, Short of the Week, and The Atlantic Selects. In 2022, the Bertha DocHouse Cinema spotlighted her as one of three "exceptional British short filmmakers," showcasing her short films for their summer series. Her works include The Family Statement for Field of Vision (co-directed with Grace Harper), nominated for a SIMA award; the Grierson award-nominated Mother (BFI London Film Festival 2020, co-directed with Jas Pitt); and the Grierson and RTS award-winning Fake News Fairytale (2018), which featured in the BFI season Born Digital: Raised by the Internet and was exhibited in a group show at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

As a cinematographer, Kate has worked internationally on projects including the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Flight/Risk for Amazon Studios and for Channel 4 News, shooting across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean. She has led workshops and courses at the National Film & Television School, the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague and UCL, where as a Senior Teaching Fellow she helped design the B.A. in Media. She is a mentor with Arts Emergency.