KAT WHALEN / Writer / Director / Producer
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Wonderstruck - Miniature Unit Producer (2017)

 

In 2016 Katrina was recruited by production designer and long-time mentor Mark Friedberg to help solve the narrative riddle of a sequence in a film he was designing.

Working together with Mark, director Todd Haynes, and a small army of model makers, character designers, scenics, and a dedicated miniature unit shooting crew, they made what would become a beautiful little experimental vignette tucked inside Haynes’s larger film - a loving ode to storytelling, in-camera effects, and hand-made craftsmanship.

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She also conceived of, shot, and animated the Natural History Museum Wolf Diorama sequences that would become the opening of the film.