Kathryn Machi

An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a dual U.S.-French citizen, Kathryn Machi helms ViviLu Productions, writing and producing multicultural, arts- and female-focused stories and screenplays. Her award-winning dance feature, Firebird, and her family drama TV pilot, Clan (aka June Rose), are both on the Indigenous List, representing "the best and most promising Native creatives in the film and television industry." A journalism major at San Francisco State University, Kathryn also studied modern and Dunham dance techniques, performing onstage with a punk band and a Brazilian troupe. To support her writing and dance explorations, she worked as a waitress, caregiver, researcher, and paralegal, and later built a thriving licensed massage therapy practice, including instructing pediatric professionals in infant/child bonding via compassionate touch. As a working mother of two young children, she won Women's and Native American university scholarships, focusing on American Indian studies, literature, cinema, and French language, earning her MFA in Creative Writing. Kathryn is an active member of the Writers Guild of America West, Women in Film, and the Cherokee Writers Group. She and her husband have two multicultural, adult children and an extraordinary son-in-law, and live on the foggy western edge of occupied Ohlone land, also known as San Francisco, California.