KATE STONEHILL

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Kate Stonehill is a Grierson award-winning filmmaker whose work explores power and citizenship in the digital age. She has worked on projects for outlets such as Channel 4, VICE and Amazon Studios, as well as exhibited her films at festivals, events and galleries internationally. Her 2024 feature documentary Phantom Parrot premiered at CPH:DOX and Sheffield Doc/Fest, where it was labelled by programmers as “a must-see for anyone who cares about civil liberties in the digital age”. Supported by BFI Doc/Society, Tribeca Film Institute and Catapult Film Fund, Phantom Parrot was theatrically released in cinemas across the U.K, received a 4-star review by Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, screened in the U.K. Houses of Parliament and was acquired by Tribeca Films for distribution in North America.

Kate’s short films have screened at leading film festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival, DOC NYC, and Hamptons International Film Festival, and been featured online on Field of Vision, The Atlantic Selects, Vimeo Staff Pick and Short of the Week. They include The Family Statement (co-directed with Grace Harper); the Grierson award nominated Mother (2020, co-directed with Jas Pitt), and the Grierson and RTS award-winning Fake News Fairytale (2018), which was included in the BFI season Born Digital: Raised by the Internet, and exhibited in a group show Digital Citizen: The Precarious Subject at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

Alongside directing documentaries, Kate has worked internationally as a cinematographer on projects such as the Emmy nominated feature documentary for Amazon Studios Flight/Risk and for Channel 4 News, shooting films 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 she helped design the B.A. in Media. She is a mentor with Arts Emergency.