Cirina Catania

Cirina Catania is the CEO/Founder of Catania Studios and Executive Director of the Student Media Collective, sponsored by Blackmagic Design. She shares her experience in all phases of production and post-production with professional filmmakers and technologists as well as students of all ages. She is known for her strong creative and technical skills as well as her ability to motivate others.

Cirina was one of the original co-founders and former executive director of the Sundance Film Festival. She is a writer, director, DP, and tech-oriented filmmaker/journalist with numerous film, broadcast television, and broadband credits. She served 8 years as a senior executive with MGM/UA and United Artists. She has been working in radio since her 20's .

Her movie, "Wounds We Carry, Beyond the Purple Heart," has been several years in the making and is prepping for post-production! When not involved in her own projects, she helps other companies maximize their production and post-production workflows, achieve success in distribution and marketing, and she remains an active mentoring producer with the Producers Guild of America.

Cirina has produced or post-produced several award-winning projects and is known as a workflow/operations expert in production circles, producing training workshops on behalf of her guilds and tech clients. She is an avid photographer and travels the world chasing interesting stories. She is grateful that she still loves her work (and has never contracted malaria!)