About Katy Vans
Katy Vans grew up watching a lot of late night films at a very young age; along with giving her nightmares she also developed a love of Spaghetti Westerns and Stanley Kubrick. With a background in acting, writing, film making and journalism she describes herself as an undisciplinary artist/word thief.
Here are my most recent posts
by Katy Vans | 10 July, 2017 | Documentary
With the shock results of our recent general election in the UK the role of politics at a local level to get people motivated and involved is in focus. We travelled to Sheffield DocFest, a champion of the independent filmmaker, last month to find this mood exhibited...
by Katy Vans | 30 March, 2016 | Interviews
Sonia Bonspille Boileau made her first feature length film Le Dep in just 10 days. She was in London to see it screened at Raindance 2015 and gave me some of her time for a chat about filmmaking. The main challenge for this film [Le Dep] was that I wanted the main...
by Katy Vans | 9 December, 2015 | Filmmaking, Interviews
Elisa Paloschi took her groundbreaking documentary Driving with Selvi to Raindance this year and in between fundraising spoke to us about why she had to make this film. I felt I could do anything I wanted; I came from the Canadian mentality where if you have a dream...
by Katy Vans | 4 November, 2015 | Filmmaking, Interviews
Showing her first feature film at Raindance 2015 Laura Plancarte took some time out from working on her next project to share some words of wisdom with us. I’m from Mexico and my career comes originally from the visual arts. I’m a performance artist, an installation...
by Katy Vans | 2 April, 2015 | Directing, Interviews
Jennifer Sharpe is a first time feature documentary maker. She presented her debut film Traceable at Raindance 2014 and shared some of the lessons she learned with us. I have had a roundabout career in film. Initially I thought I would get into production design, art...
