Katherine Propper

Katherine Amy Propper (born April 22, 1993 ) is an American film director and screenwriter. She is known for her feature directorial debut film Lost Soulz and short films.

Early life and education Propper was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

In 2016, she moved to Austin, Texas to attend the University of Texas at Austin where she received her MFA degree in Film directing. Street Flame screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019 and won several awards at film festivals.

Career After completing her studies, she worked in Austin for American director Terrence Malick on the editing team of his long-gestating religious epic. Propper moved to Texas inspired by the independent, free spirit of Austin-based filmmakers like Malick, Richard Linklater, Jeff Nichols, and Robert Rodriguez.

The Austin Film Society supported her short film Birds, featuring intercut vignettes of Texas youths finding beauty on a summer day. Birds won awards at Clermont-Ferrand in France and at South by Southwest in 2022, where it won Special Jury Recognition for Vision. The New Yorker distributed Birds as part of its Screening Room series. Lost Soulz is a coming-of-age movie about a young rapper whose dream comes true when he joins a music group on an odyssey headed West through Texas and instead finds himself on a spiritual journey home.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Awards and nominations