Dark Moon
Directed by Katie MathewsA daughter comes home for the weekend to look after her father, ailing with Dementia. The appearance of a mysterious woman shines a light on their changing parent-child power dynamic, threatening to throw their world out of orbit.
Supported by a 2021 Davey Film Grant
Official selection Montclair Film Festival 2023, Sun Valley Film Festival 2023, Sarasota Film Festival 2023, NY International Shorts 2023, Pasadena Film Festival 2023, and more.
About Katie Mathews
Katie Mathews is a filmmaker whose work explores the grey areas and liminal spaces between self and culture, home and community, healing and regeneration. She is currently directing the narrative short Dark Moon about a father-daughter relationship faced with Dementia, directing the feature documentary Roleplay about college students who use theater to confront rape culture, chosen for the 2021 Gotham Documentary Lab, and co-directing an audio-first experimental film called Signal and Noise about the sounds of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center. Previously Katie produced and story edited Mossville, (Dir. Alex Glustrom) a feature documentary about environmental racism that premiered at Full Frame where it won the Human Rights Award. She also directed and produced Post Coastal, an NEA and Smithsonian-funded documentary series about Louisiana coastal communities and climate change. Her work has screened at festivals around the world including DOC NYC, Full Frame, & Raindance, on PBS, and at the United Nations. She was a 2018 Fellow in the UnionDocs Summer Documentary Lab, a 2018 Fellow in the inaugural New Orleans Film Society’s Southern Producers Lab, and a 2019 Fellow in the Points North Fellowship and Pitch.