About
Katie Bender Wynn is a Los Angeles based director crafting long form narrative sports documentaries for mainstream audiences.
Recently, Katie directed MATILDAS: THE WORLD AT OUR FEET [2023], a 6 part docu-series for Disney Plus about the Matildas; Australia’s National Women’s Soccer Team starring Sam Kerr, Ellie Carpenter, and Mary Fowler. The series received two nominations at the 2024 AACTA Awards for Best Documentary Program and Best Direction in Nonfiction Television.
In May of 2021, Katie directed the short documentary film WE CHAMPION for General Mills’ iconic cereal brand, WHEATIES, featuring legendary activist and 1968 Olympic Champion Tommie Smith for the Cannes Lions Festival. Katie was a story producer on the NETFLIX docu-series HOME GAME [2020] about unique and dangerous traditional sports from around the world, and she story produced a SHOWTIME pilot about NBA champion Draymond Green [2019].
Katie made her directorial debut with the feature documentary THE WILL TO FLY [2016], profiling Olympic champion freestyle aerial skier, Lydia Lassila. The film premiered in Melbourne on International Women’s Day followed by a successful theatrical release where the film was positively received by critics. The film was quoted “The Most Inspirational Movie Of The Year” by the Huffington Post Australia. Since then, it has been sold to VOD and television networks across the globe, including National Geographic and STAN.
Katie is a former artistic gymnast and freestyle aerial skier who trained on the Australian Aerial Ski team. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America [DGA], Australian Directors Guild [ADG] & Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts [AACTA].
Contact
Film inquiries: Lee White | Kelly Sherman WME Agency.