Writer | Director | Programmer

KATIE
COKINOS

Katie is a freelance screenwriter and director of numerous short films and narrative features, with extensive experience in film programming and exhibition

FILMS

Watch films written and directed by Katie

I Dream Too Much (2016, trailer)

Narrative Coming-of-Age Comedy (90min): Misadventure awaits a capricious college grad when she is forced to care for her formidable great aunt. Starring Eden Brolin and Academy Award nominees Diane Ladd and Danielle Brooks.

How the World Looks Now (2018)

Narrative Short Film (11min): A retired English teacher reflects on how the 1969 Earthrise photo affected the culture and his own life.

Water Keeps Time (2021)

Documentary Short (32min): The history of Saugerties, NY as seen through its relationship to the lower Esopus Creek

Portrait of a Girl as a Young Cat (2000)

Featurette Comedy-Drama (60min): The desires and despairs of an apprentice cake decorator. Starring Katie in an homage to New Wave cinema.

SCREENPLAYS

Synopses of Katie's feature length screenplays

Full scripts are available to read upon request

THE DO-RIGHT

Adaptation of the mystery novel, “The Do-Right” by Lisa Sandlin

“The Do-Right” – that’s old Southern talk for prison. Delpha Wade doesn’t want to go back there. Fourteen years is enough for killing the man who raped her back in 1959 and she wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. It’s 1973, and nobody’s rushing to hire a parolee except neophyte private investigator, Tom Phelan, ex medic in Vietnam and roughneck on oil rigs. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont Texas, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil.

THE NATURE OF THINGS

Ensemble Comedy-Drama

A reclusive farmer’s life is turned outside in when her estranged siblings reunite on the family’s dank mushroom farm. My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Fantastic Funghi splash of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

THE GIRL VANISHES

Screwball Romantic Comedy

When the realities of marriage and a new life in New York City fall short of a Southern newlywed's expectations, she discovers inspiration and solace working as a chambermaid for the eccentric occupants of a storied country estate. Eve's emotional yet humorous marital hiatus rides off the rails when her hubby arrives, the mansion goes up in flames, and the couple is forced to resolve their issues within the confines of a jail cell. The comedic story follows Eve's impulsive rush into, subsequent escape from, and eventual reconciliation with married life.