Katie Mathews is a filmmaker, researcher, and educator working across documentary and fiction. Named as one of 2024’s DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 Filmmakers, her collaborative approach is focused on creating spaces for truth and transformation. Her work has been shared on Teen Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, WIRED, PBS, Hulu, and Disney+ and screened for the United Nations.

Recently she directed feature documentary Roleplay about a group of college students who use theater to confront campus rape culture that had its World Premiere at SXSW (2024). She wrote and directed the narrative short Dark Moon about a father-daughter relationship faced with Dementia chosen as a Vimeo Staff Pick (2023) and co-directed an audio-first experimental film called Signal and Noise about the sounds of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center, winner of a Special Jury Prize Winner at New Orleans Film Festival (2022). Previously she produced and story edited Mossville, a feature documentary about environmental racism that won human rights awards at festivals around the world and screened for the United Nations. She also directed and produced Post Coastal, an NEA and Smithsonian- funded documentary series about Louisiana coastal communities and climate change. 

She received the prestigious Princess Grace Award for Film with the Wendy Ferguson Honor for distinction (2022). She has been a fellow in renowned programs such as the Gotham Documentary Lab (2021), the Points North Fellowship and Pitch (2019), and the New Orleans Film Society's Southern Producers Lab (2018). 

She holds a BA in Communications from Northwestern University and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from CUNY-Hunter College. She currently teaches filmmaking at Hunter College in New York.