Kat Candler


Kat Candler is an American independent filmmaker. Her award-winning feature Hellion starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. She has credits as a director, writer and producer.

Career

Kat Candler's award-winning feature Hellion starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Candler's work in television includes directing seven episodes of Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey's highly acclaimed Queen Sugar, two episodes of 13 Reasons Why and an episode of Sorry for Your Loss starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jovan Adepo. She oversaw Season 2 of Queen Sugar as the producing director, Season 3 as the Showrunner and Season 3 of 13 Reasons Why as the Consulting Producer. This last year, she directed three episodes of the upcoming Apple + show Home Before Dark starring Brooklynn Prince and Jim Sturgess and an episode of Dirty John starring Amanda Peet and Christian Slater. She's writing and developing a horror film for Fox Searchlight and a TV series set in the oil refinery world of southeast Texas for TNT. Most recently she's directing the television pilot The Republic of Sarah for the CW.

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