Kara Durrett
Kara Durrett is a 2019 Sundance Producing Lab Fellow, a 2021 nominee for the Independent Spirit Piaget Producers Award and the 2023 Sundance Producers Fiction Award winner. Recently, Durrett wrapped production on David Craig and Brian Crano’s I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU, starring Nick Kroll and Andrew Rannells produced alongside Pinky Promise, which premiered at SXSW in 2024. At the same festival, she was presented IndieWire's Janet Pierson Champion Award rewarding innovation and excellence in the art of storytelling.
Other films include THE STARLING GIRL, which premiered at Sundance 2023 and sold to Bleecker Street and Focus Features, and IF YOU WERE THE LAST starring Anthony Mackie and Zoey Chao, CADDO LAKE Written and Directed by Celine Held and Logan George, which sold to Warner Brothers.
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