ABOUT

Cathy Marriott-Brown is a writer, director, actor, editor, sound designer, former sound-recordist, self-shooter, artist, sewist, prop maker, visual anthropologist, podcast producer, lecturer, theatre-maker, audiobook narrator, swimmer, pint drinker, vegetarian, runner, brunette, reader, singer, draw-er, gardener, tidy-er, socialist, driver, cyclist, pedestrian, cinema-goer, girlfriend, researcher, thinker, camera, pause, tangle, liquid, weekend, and poet.

Because of this, her website is a bit of a mess, categorisation wise.

Currently, Cathy’s focus is split between development of her next short, ALARMED, which she hopes to shoot in the autumn, and her new theatre company Compact Disc, which she has formed with actor/housemate Tom Terry and director Sam Smithson. They are developing their first show, a devised theatre piece to be performed in fringe festivals in 2027.

She is also trying to earn a living with freelance videography and editing, some of which you can see on the Skills page of this site.

So welcome!

Kick off your shoes! Make yourself at home! Have a look around…

(PS. Cathy wrote all of the stuff on this page, but she did it in the third person so it would seem less like boasting)

Cathy’s last short film, Itching, received an honourable mention in the inaugural A Rabbit’s Foot Magazine short film competition, with judges including Bruce Robinson (Withnail & I, 1987), and Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur, 2012), and is now screening permanently on their website.

It also had a successful festival run, most notably screening at the BAFTA qualifying Norwich Film Festival, as well as BIFA qualifying Kino London, Beeston Film Festival, Exit6 and The Shortest Nights, and securing a win for Best Film at Coventry Phoenix Film Festival, along with wins in various categories in other festivals across its run.

Simon Leydon of Beeston Film Festival said of Itching:

“Beautifully realised. Such a subtle, emotionally deft film. Imbued with a meditative stillness, ‘Itching’ combs humans’ yearning for social conectedness and intimacy. Exquisitely filmed”

The film stars actor and poet Caitlin O’Ryan, and was shot over two days, on 16mm film, in and around London.