Katherine Sarafian

Katherine Marianne Sarafian (; born January 27, 1969) is an Armenian-American film producer. She started at Pixar Animation Studios as an artist but was shifted from the art department to marketing during the making of A Bug's Life by Pixar head Steve Jobs. She then became a producer within Pixar.

Sarafian interned with the Armenian Assembly of America in 1991, which led to an internship at a video production company in Washington, D.C.

Career Sarafian produced Pixar's 2006 short film Lifted and its 2012 theatrical release Brave, for which she was nominated for the Producer's Guild Award for Outstanding Producer of an Animated Theatrical Motion Picture.

Personal life Katherine Marianne Sarafian lives in nearby Oakland with her husband, visual effects specialist Meher Gourjian, whose production credits include work in Harry Potter

Producer filmography The Incredibles (2004) (assistant producer) Lifted (2006) (producer) Brave (2012) (producer) Toy Story 4 (2019) (development producer) Cars on the Road (2022) (executive producer) Self (2024) (executive producer)

Accolades In 2013, for her work on Brave, she was nominated for "Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures" at the 24th Producers Guild of America Awards and for "Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature" at the 11th Visual Effects Society Awards, which she won.