Katiana is a Black American multidisciplinary filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. Her films have been screened internationally in both theatrical and gallery spaces and she is known for her work as a cinematographer, director, and editor. Thematically, her image-making is rooted in temporal explorations of grief and memoria—its stickiness and porosity.  

As an educator, her pedagogical concerns reach past form and mode to focus on the collective affect of filmmaking. How do we create together and in service of what? Her curriculum urges both herself and her students to ask this question often, collectively, and urgently. Throughout her educational career, she has served as a curriculum writer and instructor for multiple film courses at Baltimore School of the Arts' Film & Visual Storytelling department and as a lecturer/adjunct professor within Goldsmiths’ Media & Communication Department and Towson University's Electronic Film & Media department. Outside of permanent positions, she has facilitated film-based workshops focusing on cinematography and visual storytelling. She encourages her students to develop the skills to communicate through film in ways that resonate with themselves and their communities.

Katiana holds an MFA (2024 from The Royal College of Art) and a BFA (2020 from Syracuse University's Film Production Program) and additionally holds an AA in Film Studies. While at the Royal College of Art, she developed Axiom24, a kinofuturist manifesto that formalizes her approach to filmmaking in pursuit of a truly collaborative and radically supportive industry. Through Axiom24, she seeks to encourage filmmakers to actively question industry practices and to use circularly collaborative filmmaking practices to mend and care for practitioners, both contemporary and future.

Her commitment to innovative filmmaking has earned her recognition as a semi-finalist for the 2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, a fellowship with the 2023 iteration of the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, & an artist residency at The House of Koko in 2024/2025.

Katiana’s passion for storytelling and dedication to a collaborative filmmaking process continue to drive her work.

She is currently based in London.