Kate Burton is a writer/director and film education practitioner based in Glasgow. Her short dramas include The Ice Plant (2007), Ever Here I Be (2011) and BB (2015). Burton’s films have screened internationally including Seattle International Film Festival, Palm Springs Short Fest, Nashville International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. Ever Here I Be was shortlisted for the Underwire Best Female Character Award and BB was nominated for the Channel 4 Innovation in Storytelling Award. In 2018 Burton was awarded funding from Creative Scotland to develop her feature treatment ‘Dear me in the future’.

Burton has been a freelance Film education practitioner for 19 years, working with Screen Scotland, Into Film, Eòlais Cinema,The Centre for Moving Image (Le Cinéma Cent Ans de Jeunesse- Cinémathèque Française), Firefly Arts, Project Ability Glasgow, Scottish Film Education and Glasgow Film. Burton was also visiting lecturer at Queen Margaret University assisting development of a film education module and helped to pilot the film education project ‘Our Cinema’.

Burton has extensive experience working with neurodivergent children and young people and was recently awarded funding from Screen Scotland to facilitate stop-motion and filmmaking workshops in two ASN (Additional Support Needs) schools in Glasgow. Through her work, Burton has experienced first-hand the powerful impact of film when working with neurodivergent learners, an experience that has helped shaped her understanding and approach. Burton’s passion is to develop and create a programme that reimagines film education through a neurodivergent lens.

Burton has a BA (Hons) in Environmental Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and a Diploma with Distinction in Foundation Studies in Fine Art from Leeds College of Art and Design. During her degree, she also studied Film and Performance at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, as part of a study-abroad programme.