Kathryn Machi

Brian Judy, Bohemia Group
brian@bohemiaent.com - 1.323.462.5800

An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, a dual U.S.-French citizen, and San Francisco native, Kathryn (Kate) Machi, MFA, helms ViviLu Productions, writing and producing life-affirming, multicultural, history- and arts-driven stories and screenplays. Firebird, a Cherokee-French dance and family drama currently in development, and period TV drama, June Rose, inspired by Kathryn's ancestral Cherokee family, are both on the Indigenous List, representing ""the best and most promising Native creatives in the film and television industry.

After undergrad studies in journalism and modern dance, Kate worked as a waitress in SF dive bars to 5-star restaurants; as a paralegal and librarian; a holistic healer in top Bay Area spas, and teaching nurturing touch to Stanford pediatric nurses. As a mom in her 40s, she returned to college for American Indigenous, cinema, and literature studies, earning both her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing.

A member of Women in Film, Film Collaborative SF, the Cherokee Writers Group, and the Writers Guild of America West, Kate is inspired by music and dance; offline romance and love; justice and healing; her Cherokee-Celtic and French-Kabyle relations; family life from pregnancy through last breath; deep belly laughter, and the food that nourishes. She and her Parisian husband have two beautiful adult children and live on the foggy western edge of San Francisco, occupied land of the Ohlone people.

Honors & Awards

Finalist, The Indigenous List, Sundance, IllumiNative, the Black List - JUNE ROSE - 2022

Finalist, The Indigenous List, Sundance, IllumiNative, the Black List - FIREBIRD - 2020

WGA Associate

Female, Indigenous/Native American, 55+

FIREBIRD

Dance and Family Drama

Ruby, a gifted teenage Cherokee ballerina, wins a once-in-a-lifetime chance to dance her dream ballet in the South of France, but her rowdy cowboy father insists on chaperoning her, with his own agenda -- to find Ruby's mother and bring her home to Oklahoma.

LA DANSE L'AMOUR LA VIE

Romantic period drama

After surviving a near-fatal accident, a young photographer trades the foggy streets of San Francisco for the rock'n'roll dance clubs of Paris, where she falls for a charismatic DJ and his reckless best friend.

GOD-STRUCK

Drama, spirituality Feature

EAT, PRAY, LOVE meets THE THREE GLORIAS.

Feature film inspired by the true story and New York Times bestseller, A Book of Angels, by Sophy Burnham, with permission by the author.

An agnostic, feminist, NY Times bestselling writer loses her family, friends, and almost her mind after she's saved by an angel.

Character-driven, Female-centric, BIPOC-centric, Romantic, Historical/Alternative History, Coming-of-Age, Naturalistic, International

Female, Indigenous/Native American, 55+

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