Kate Blackmore is a director and educator with extensive experience across fiction, non-fiction and experimental filmmaking. Over the past decade, she has created more than 25 short documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, including the Walkley Award-nominated series The Movement. Kate’s narrative shorts have both screened at the Sydney Film Festival (Dendy Awards 2023).
In 2025, Kate premiered her debut feature documentary Make it Look Real at SXSW (Austin), a hybrid film that investigates the new profession of intimacy coordination in film and TV. Produced by Bethany Bruce and Dan Joyce, the film was acquired by Netflix Australia and received development and production support from Screen NSW, Screen Australia and the Adelaide Film Festival.
Kate is also a founding member of artist collective, Barbara Cleveland, whose moving image installations have been exhibited internationally and are held in major Australian public collections, including the Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art and Queensland Art Gallery’s Gallery of Modern Art.
Prior to joining AFTRS, Kate taught as a sessional academic at UTS and UNSW. Holding a BFA/BA (Hons) in Moving Image & Performance from UNSW Art & Design and an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin, Kate combines academic rigour, creative experimentation and industry experience into her teaching.