Welcome to the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation
The actress Katrin Cartlidge died suddenly in September 2002 at the age of 41.
Her many film credits included NAKED, BEFORE THE RAIN, BREAKING THE WAVES, CAREER GIRLS, TOPSY TURVY and NO MAN’S LAND.
Shortly after her untimely death the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation was established in her memory.
It exists to encourage, in the form in the form of an annual busary awarded to a new creative voice in cinema, the independence, singularity and integrity of spirit that Katrin Cartlidge powerfully embraced and exemplified in her own lifetime.
“When our closest friend Katrin Cartlidge died, she tore through death as she tore through life. With anarchic disregard for ‘good form’ she was gone before we knew a thing. Her magnetic sense of direction for what is right and what is possible remains a compass for all her friends. And to ensure that we remember to tear through life with that same anarchic disregard for our own safety, we set up the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation”
Simon McBurney, on behalf of the Trustees and Patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation.
Latest News
ANNIE NOCENTI selects CINE INSTITUT HAITI as Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary recipient 2010
Journalist, writer, editor, filmmaker Annie Nocenti has selected the Cine Institut, Jakmel, Haiti, to receive the seventh Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary; the first time that the bursary has been given to an organisation rather than to an individual.
STELLAN SKARSGARD selects JUANITA WILSON as Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary recipient 2009
Actor Stellan Skarsgard has selected Irish filmmaker Juanita Wilson to receive the sixth Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary, in recognition of her short film THE DOOR, about a father's desperate attempt to come to terms with the devastating affects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
August 2007 Update
On 23 September 2007, curator JOHN LYONS, President of Production at Focus Features, presented the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary 2007 to CARY FUKUNAGA at the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival.
