Filmmaker Spotlight
Katherine Craft
The Hog Queen
Director: Katherine Craft
Country : USA
Runtime: 12:59
Genre: Queer Horror
Language: English
Completion Year: 2025
Links: Instagram
Synopsis
A disgruntled bartender’s plans to skip town are disrupted when feral hogs attack a small town Texas gay bar during a drag show, and everyone inside scrambles to survive the hogs…and each other.
About the Director
Katherine Craft is a born and raised Texan with low vision who has been known to introduce herself multiple times to the same person at a party. She has an MFA in Screenwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, and holds an MA in Applied Drama from Goldsmiths College at the University of London.
She is the recipient of Inevitable Foundations Visionary Fellowship, which gave mid-career disabled writers the support and funds to direct their first short film. She wrote and directed THE HOG QUEEN as part of that program. She's the creator and writer of the Audible Original series SHAKY, available on Audible. She also wrote on the Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ series BEST FOOT FORWARD and is the creator and writer of the Snap Original Series KAPPA CRYPTO, an NBC/Snap production.
She received an HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, and her pilot HALFWAY, written as part of the program, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. She has written and produced several short narrative films, including JUNE, which won first place in the HBO 2018 Asian Pacific American Visionaries showcase, and CHARLOTTE AND CHARLIE, which was a finalist in the 2019 PBS Online Film Festival.
She also founded Conspire Theatre, a nonprofit that uses theatre to work with women during and after incarceration, and was a teaching artist for arts education organizations in Austin, Chicago, and London. She's currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in the RTF department at the University of Texas at Austin. .