Kate Chamuris is a producer, director and actress based in Los Angeles, CA. She began making narrative films after working in the NYC theater and comedy improv scene. Her award-winning films have gone on to shortlist for the Live Action Short Oscar and screened at top festivals including Sundance & SXSW.

Her producing experience includes THE BREAKTHROUGH short (dir. Daniel Sinclair, starring Greta Lee and Ben Sinclair) that world premiered at SXSW ’23. BLOCKS short (dir. Bridget Moloney) that had its world premiere at Sundance 2020 and the creative team was the subject of a Southwest Airlines sponsored LA Times docu-series on their journey to Sundance. MILLER & SON short (dir. Asher Jelinsky) was on the shortlist for Live Action Short at the 92nd Academy Awards, won the Gold Student Academy Award ‘19, won the student BAFTA live action short award ‘19 and their casting director, Russell Boast, was nominated for a CSA Artios Award ‘20. BALLOON short (dir. Jeremy Merrifield) Oscar qualified by winning the Grand Prix at HollyShorts ‘19 as well as Best Drama Series at the College Television Awards. UNSPEAKABLE short (dir. Milena Govich) world premiered at SXSW ‘18. Animated short NUEVO RICO (dir. Kristian Mercado) that won the Oscar Qualifying Jury Award for Best Animated Short at SXSW ‘21 & LALIFF ‘21.

Kate’s directing work includes the comedy short A SARI FOR PALLAVI (writer Sunita Deshpande) that won first prize for Best Comedy Short at Academy Award qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. 

You can see her starring opposite Josephine Decker in the feature film ROSEHILL distributed on KinoScope.

While developing her independent projects, Kate is working as a client side VFX coordinator on the feature film GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, Lucasfilm’s THE MANDALORIAN S3, THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT S1, and AHSOKA S1, and HBO’s THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES S3. She is currently VFX senior coordinator on Disney’s MOANA live action feature.

Kate was in the inaugural class of seven young executives in SeriesFest’s Executive Elevation Program. She’s been a film screener for SXSW ‘24 in the independent episodic category and has been a filmmaker mentor at SXSW, Palm Springs ShortFest and the Sloan Film Summit. As well as on industry panels for Series Fest and Palm Springs ShortFest.

Kate is also a film festival festival & distribution strategy consultant. She enjoys helping independent filmmakers get clear on their next steps towards having a sustainable career as an artist.