Catriona McKenzie

Catriona McKenzie is an Australian filmmaker. She is known for her film Satellite Boy and television series Kiki and Kitty and Wrong Kind of Black. Her production company is called Dark Horse.

Early life and education Catriona McKenzie is an Aboriginal Australian woman of the Gunai/Kurnai people of south-eastern Australia. She graduated with Honours in 2001, and afterwards studied screenwriting at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

She has also worked on numerous other TV series, including Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Tidelands, Harrow, The Warriors, Dance Academy, The Circuit, Redfern Now and The Gods of Wheat Street. She is the first Indigenous Australian woman to direct a TV series in the US (the supernatural drama Shadowhunters).

In 2018 McKenzie founded her own production company, Dark Horse, which she intended to be a vehicle to provide opportunities for new, diverse voices. The first film is planned to be Stolen, co-written with Patricia Cornelius.

From 2019 Philip Noyce, as executive producer, travelled from Los Angeles, along with McKenzie, in August 2019 to meet the elders. The film began production in 2021.

Other roles and activities McKenzie was appointed as a Film and Television Industry Advisory Committee Member under Screen NSW's Sydney City of Film initiative, initially until 31 December 2019, and then reappointed to 31 December 2022.

She is a member of the Directors Guild of America.