Kat Sparks
CEO, Founder
​Kat Sparks is a writer, script consultant, producer, and director in Austin, Texas. She is an award-winning writer and director for both theater and film, winning dozens of festival placements, She was recently honored to be selected as one of the “New American Voices” by the Queens Theatre, New York. She has received top reviews in the Austin Chronicle, Playbill, and Broadway World for directing high-profile plays such as SWEAT, TRADE WITH KLAN, and ALABAMA STORY. Kat has also worked as a reader, jurist, and script consultant with the Austin Film Festival and her own writer festivals. She is the founding member of Southwest Film Productions, writing and directing “APPLAUSE,” a SAG short film about an actor who is replaced after opening night for an unexpected reason. Preproduction has begun on her pilot, "Shark Teeth Wars," a political thriller, and her feature film, "Above Ground," is currently in development. ​Qualifications
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Coverage for SpecScout, Abbott, and the Matthau Company
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Director (numerous theatre, and now film)
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Writer (Kat's first screenplay, Wolves of Beirut, made the monthly Black List)
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Actor, trained by Ivana Chubbuck; 75 lead stage roles; television (recurring daytime); film
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Producer, theatre and film
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Executive producer supporting new films and writers,
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Acting coach (private, on-set, night-before, and one-on-one coaching)
Ana Dragomir
Executive Assistant/ Office Manager
Associate Producer
Ana Dragomir started as a writer and producer based out of Austin, Texas. She began her career as a Script Competition Manager at the Austin Film Festival where she managed over 10,000 scripts while supervising a team of 300+ readers. ​She is passionate about character-driven stories and has read and evaluated 300+ scripts to date. ​ Ana's short film, Moribund, has won several awards including Best Short Screenplay at the LAFA Awards and Best Dark Comedy at the ONIROS Film Awards.
​Qualifications
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Coverage for Austin Film Festival
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Graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelors in Radio-Television-Film
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Script Competition Manager at Austin Film Festival 2022
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Has read and evaluated over 300+ scripts to date
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Award-Winning Writer
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Directed and produced first short film at the age of 13
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Producer, and Associate Producer film credits
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Casting, various projects
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Shadowed Director Kat Sparks on recent plays, projects, table reads, and films