Kate Barr
President/Treasurer
Kate obtained a degree in Film Management from Columbia College, Chicago, back in the early 1990s. She delved briefly into Chicago’s commercial film production industry doing on-set production work, and then returned to the film industry in the early 2000s, this time in LA, working as a Controller for commercial productions. Kate moved to Seattle in 2009 where she joined the volunteers at The Grand Illusion Cinema and helped bring it back from the brink of closing. She is one of the founding members of SV Archive, the nonprofit that took over Scarecrow’s collection in 2014.
Favorite Scarecrow section: Whodunit
Formative movie experience: Doris Dörrie’s Men…, which I rented from our neighborhood video store back in the ‘80’s. As a teenager in the Midwest watching a German movie… a movie written AND directed by a woman…doors of possibilities opened in my mind that have never closed.
Currently recommending: Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017, Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana); Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018, Pamela B. Green); Rat (2000, Steve Barron); The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent, 4K release)