Kat Mansoor
Directing
Biography
With over 20 years of industry experience, award-winning PRODUCER Kat Mansoor has worked with the likes of BBC Film, Film 4, Netflix and distributors around the world to consistently deliver a slate of highly acclaimed films. Kat’s work has been shown at festivals such as Cannes, Telluride, SXSW and IDFA. Her film credits include double Grierson-winning HERE’S JOHNNY, THE MAN WHOSE MIND EXPLODED, LOST AND SOUND, WHAT WE BELIEVE and IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING. Kat’s most recent releases include BAFTA nominated COW by Academy Award-winning Director Andrea Arnold and BAFTA-nominated REBELLION. Kat’s current productions include MOLLY VS THE MACHINES (Luminate, Screen Scotland, Doc Society), RE-EVALUATION (Film4), BJORK: CORNUCOPIA, FIRESTARTERS (Cinereach), FATHER FATHER (Bertha) and NO PLACE LIKE HOME (Screen Ireland/BFI).
Known For

The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.
The Comic Strip Presents...

From a teenager's suburban bedroom to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, this is a story of a heartbroken father's quest to uncover the truth behind his daughter's death and his fightback against how the most powerful corporations of the modern age operate.
Molly vs. THE MACHINES

A visually spectacular landscape of lush colours, futuristic screens and wild images of nature that comes alive with Björk's wondrous music, as she performs live alongside musicians and choirs of flutes and voices.
Björk: Cornucopia

A close-up portrait of the daily lives of a pair of cows: told by way of some narrative-free, intimate POV photography, with plenty of close shot images, we follow the daily routine of these animals as they live what can only be described as mundane, boring lives - all with an ultimate purpose within the human food chain.
Cow

Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep as his wife.
The Strike

In April 2019, Extinction Rebellion blocks strategic traffic points in London for days, leading to the arrest of hundreds of nonviolent protesters. Rebellion works, responds international climate lawyer Farhana Yamin, seeming almost surprised when the government agrees to their demand to declare a climate emergency.
Rebellion

When her mother Nuala goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself.
A Want in Her

This eloquent documentary enters the surreal world of renowned graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton (the comics Judge Dredd and 2000 AD), who is battling the disease multiple sclerosis. Living in an increasing state of immobility and frustration, Johnny escapes the confines of his front room through his artwork. Through the expression of his brilliant and sometimes troubled imagination, we learn about the disease that he cannot escape from.
Here's Johnny

Ida's Diary is a film about hope and courage, about finding your own identity and daring to live. It's a personal film based on Ida's own video diary from the last eight years.
Ida's Diary

Documentary tour of the "Rembrandt: Late Works" exhibit at the National Gallery, London and subsequently at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

A revealing account of Pen Farthing's evacuation of an Afghan animal shelter during the West's chaotic withdrawal of 2021. We examine why a nation was so vocal, both for and against, the idea of saving animals when so many humans were at risk.