Faculty Bio

Katherine Lindberg Department of Graduate Film Tisch Asia Phone: (+65) 6500-1744 Email: katherinelindberg@att.net Office: Room 03-14

Biography

Katherine Lindberg was raised in Los Alamos, New Mexico. She received her M.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts, Maurice Kanbar School of Film & Television at New York University where she was honored with both the Award for Excellence in Writing and the Award for Excellence in Directing.
 
Upon completion of her first graduate year at Tisch, Katherine was awarded the inaugural Martin Scorsese Young Filmmaker Fellowship. In addition to a substantial cash award, Katherine was invited to meet Mr. Scorsese, thus beginning a mentor/student relationship that continues to this day.
 
Katherine sold her first feature length script to Disney/Touchstone while finishing her fourth student short, La Desconocida, financed in part with money earned working as a roofer for The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington.
 
Lindberg’s academic awards also include: Maurice Kanbar Screenwriting Award; Time-Warner Fellowship; NYU First Run Festival Honors in Writing, Directing, Cinematography and Sound Design; Martin Scorsese Post Production Award; Founders Day Scholar.
 
Katherine’s first feature film, Rain, was produced by Martin Scorsese and premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. Rain had its U.S. premiere at Sundance and also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Seattle International Festival, Motovun (Croatia) International Festival, Moscow International Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival where it received the award for Best Cinematography.
 
Currently, Katherine is in development with Sarah Jessica Parker/HBO on the T.V. series Auction House and Marc Rosen (Rosen Obst) on Tether. Her horror/slasher script High Pond is out for financing, and she is working with Scorsese to secure cast/financing for Weightless (a teen comedy) and INVITED (a ghost story). Scorsese is attached as executive producer on both projects. kql1276@nyu.edu