Kathryn Machi

San Francisco screenwriter Kathryn Machi, M.F.A., helms ViviLu Productions where she researches, germinates, and writes screenplays and stories that entertain, educate, and embrace creative, life-affirming, feminist, and culturally diverse individuals, families, and communities, for international audiences ages 12 to 102. BUZZ, a “Me, Too” dance thriller set in SF, was sold to Mar Vista Entertainment in 2019. Other projects include JUNE ROSE, TV pilot: In the late 1960s San Francisco bursting with protests, police, and flower power, June Rose Wilder (40), a vivacious Catholic housewife and mother of three teenagers, permanently raises her family’s consciousness when she reunites with her estranged father and accidentally discovers her long-hidden Cherokee ancestry. FIREBIRD, Feature Film: A contemporary dance-drama loosely based on the “The Firebird” ballet, FIREBIRD portrays three generations of Oklahoma Indian dancers: 17-year-old ballerina Ruby Lightfoot; her mother, Nan, a frustrated ballerina who is now a flamenco dancer in the South of France, and Ruby’s grandmother, Wilma, a traditional Shawl Dancer, and the heart and hub of the family.