Katie Bonham is an award-winning working-class filmmaker and visual artist working across short film, theatre, AR and social engagement projects. Her creative interests include exploring social commentaries andchampioning female characters.  Growing up in a small seaside town in Kent, Katie draws inspiration from her hometown and working-class roots. As a child Katie could usually be found reading ‘Point Horror’ books, or helping her mum cleaning holiday chalets for extra money. 

  

Her magical realism short film, Mab, won the audience award for Best Short Film at Abertoir Horror Film Festival, and was nominated for the Melies D'Or by the European Fantastic Film Federation at Sitges International Film Festival. 

 

Katie was commissioned by BBC Arts for their ‘New Creatives’ scheme, writing and directing the surrealist comedy short film, Selfie Stick, which has broadcasted numerous times on BBC4 as part of their ‘Female Filmmakers’ features, was featured on BBC News and iPlayer. 

 

Katie is a member of DirectorsUK, BAFTA connect and female directing collective Cinesisters. Katie was selected for the BFI Directors Lab, and was part of Manchester Film Festivals writing Labs in 2026. She recently received early feature film development funding from Ffilm Cymru for her debut feature, 'Arcana' and was commissioned by Parity Pictures to develop romantic comedy, 'Romero and Juanita with a J'. 

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Contact: bonhamkt@gmail.com