Welcome to NYWIFT! Please introduce yourself briefly to our readers.

I am Catherine Craig, a filmmaker in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was raised on the East Coast, and I love NYC. I am very excited to become a part of NYWIFT. If anyone has any questions about any of my areas of expertise please feel free to reach out. I would love to hear from you.

By Lily Hutcheson

Welcome to NYWIFT, Catherine Craig!

Catherine Craig was George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic’s first animation FX camerawoman, later becoming a digital artist at ILM. A highly regarded film archivist, Craig designed the Coppola film archive and implemented Zoetrope’s domestic and international film distribution.

As an early female entrepreneur, Craig founded her own award-winning, union and guild-affiliated film company, specializing in high-end industrial and commercial productions. Her vast experience spans all aspects of filmmaking: she’s worked as a director, producer, camera operator, concept artist, storyboard artist, special FX artist, sound recordist, and more.

Her screenplay OddFX was accepted into the NYWIFT-affiliated The Writers Lab. The film follows a mother living in a women’s shelter, battling a physically abusive husband and a broken support system, who enlists the help of a special FX film crew. It is fiscally sponsored by NYWIFT.