Kathleen Hepburn is a

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screenwriter and film director. She first attracted acclaim for her film ''

Never Steady, Never Still ''Never Steady, Never Still'' is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The full-length List of directorial debuts, directorial debut of Kathleen Hepburn, the film is a family drama which stars Shi ...

'', which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017."Never Steady, Never Still to hit silver screen"
''

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'', January 11, 2017. The film received eight

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nominations at the

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in 2018, including

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and a

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nomination for Hepburn."Mary Kills People, Anne, Ava, Mohawk Girls among nominees at Screen Awards"

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via ''

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'', January 16, 2018. Hepburn garnered further praise for co-directing and co-writing ''

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'' (2019) with

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. The film premiered at the 69th annual Berlin Film Festival and won three Canadian Screen Awards at the

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and

for Hepburn and Tailfeathers. The film also won the

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's $100,000

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Career

Hepburn first attracted acclaim for her film ''

'', which premiered as a short film in 2015 before being expanded into her feature film debut in 2017. The film received eight

nominations at the

6th Canadian Screen Awards The 6th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 11, 2018, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2017.

in 2018, including

and a

nomination for Hepburn. Hepburn won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director of a Canadian Film at the

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. She was also nominated for the

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. In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the

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's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside

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, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White, Asia Youngman,

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, and Kristina Wagenbauer. Her second full-length feature film, ''

'', was co-directed with

and premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival. The film won the $25,000 Best BC Film Award at the 2019

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, the Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Best Canadian Film and Best Director of a Canadian Film, and the

. It won three Canadian Screen Awards at the

and

for Hepburn and Tailfeathers, and Best Cinematography for Norm Li.Leo Barraclough
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'', May 29, 2020. The film also won the

's $100,000

. In 2020 she released the short documentary film ''Perfumed Dreaming'', a meditation on the cycle of life which contrasts the recent birth of her sister Megan's first child against the recent death of Kathleen and Megan's mother.Pat Mullen
"Now Streaming: Watch Kathleen Hepburn’s First Doc ‘Perfumed Dreaming’"
''

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'', April 7, 2020.

Filmography

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Career

Filmography

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