Katey Lee Carson is a director and screenwriter. With her first short film The Washing Up, she was invited to Sundance Film Festival for the Ghetto Film School showcase at the age of 20. Her latest fiction short The Secret Assistants starring Camille Rutherford and Richard Hope screened at Busan, St Kilda and Hollyshorts as well as 8 BIFA qualifying festival. A Berlinale Talents alumna, her work includes the fiction short Harold (Durban International Film Festival, Shnit, and Best Film at the Cape Winelands Film Festival), the documentary short Painting Cape Town (Durban, Shnit), and the documentary feature The Waste Trade (Ischia Film Festival). She has also worked as an assistant director on major international productions, including Luca Guadagnino’s Queer and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. Most recently she directed 2nd Unit on Apple TV’s crime thriller television series Berlin Noir.