Katie Cokinos is a writer and director whose debut feature film, I Dream Too Much, 2016, (coming of age comedy, drama) starred Diane Ladd, Eden Brolin and Danielle Brooks. IDTM had a run on Netflix and is now available on Amazon. Katie also wrote, directed, and starred in the featurette film, Portrait of a Girl as a Young Cat, which premiered at SXSW in 2000 and is now available on Vimeo. In addition, Katie produced Eagle Pennell’s film, Heart Full of Soul (1990); was a publicist for Richard Linklater’s Slacker (1991) and was the Managing Director of the Austin Film Society, 1990-95 and an administrative assistant at the Southwest Alternate Media Project, Houston, 1988-90. She was the location manager for Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994), Love and a .45 (1994), and assistant location manager for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Katie has written screenplays The Girl Vanishes, and co-written One Summer Day, both feature length romantic comedies. She lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley.