Director BIO: Catherine Haun (MRS. MURPHY’S CONFESSION)

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Catherine Haun was born in Los Angeles to James and Diane Haun, the middle of six children. Catherine grew up in Los Angeles, on Catalina Island and in other places in the southwest. She attended Pacific Palisades High School, Carnegie-Mellon University (Drama), and The Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City. Currently Catherine is based in New Mexico where she lives with her physicist husband Art Edwards and their two children.

By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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