Bio

Kaz is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and video artist.

She has made seven short films which have screened at festivals domestically and abroad, directed ten music videos, including Silversound Showdown PRIX ULTIME Winner “Gold,” and been the grateful recipient of fellowships and grants from the likes of AFI, Cinereach, Eastman Kodak and the Jerome Foundation.

She is an alumna of AFI’s prestigious Directing Workshop for Women and won the Institute’s Jean Picker Firstenberg Award for her DWW short, MEGAFAUNA, which starred Marin Ireland (GLASS CHIN) and was shot by Reed Morano, ASC (HANDMAID’S TALE). Her experimental acid western THE HALCYON was picked up by short genre platform DUST, and premiered on October 8, 2020. Kaz’s most recent short film PROXY examines the dark side of surrogate parenting and had its world premiere at the Academy-qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival in August 2022.

As a writer, Kaz has developed and set up multiple projects, including a YA fantasy series with Atlas Entertainment, a feature-length horror at Intrepid Pictures, and a feature with Universal as part of the Dark Universe. Her psychological thriller UNDER was a Nichols Semi-Finalist (142 out of 7000+ submissions). Her serial killer thriller BLACK RIBBON is currently set up at All Night Diner with Nick Moceri (A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT) producing. Her paranormal erotic thriller SEXFIEND is set up with Jasmine Johnson (THE ANGRY BLACK GIRL AND HER MONSTER) producing.

As a video artist she has presented work in France (Théâtre de Chaillot, Paris; Les Subsistances, Lyon; Le Quartz, Brest), Poland, Denmark, Russia, Australia, the UAE, and across the US (American Repertory Theater, Cambridge MA; Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA) and was the video artist in residence with internationally acclaimed NYC-based dance theater company Witness Relocation for over a decade. Her video design work has been called “hallucinatory” by the New York Times, and described as “audio-visual anarchy” by New York Magazine.

Kaz graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University with a BA in English and a Certificate in Creative Writing. She was born in England (dual citizenship), grew up in the Pacific Northwest, spent many strange years in Brooklyn, NY and now calls Los Angeles home.