Give some cash as fast as you can to Katie’s film fund

An award-winning film director from Canterbury has launched a crowdfunding appeal to raise £6,000 for her latest production.

Katie Smith, 26, who studied film at Canterbury Christ Church University, is working on Run Run as Fast As You Can – a short film written by Bafta nominee Danny King.

She plans to start shooting in Canterbury and the surrounding countryside in June and is hoping her past success will help secure funding.

Her last film, Crossroads, earned numerous nominations and awards and was selected for showing at 16 film festivals worldwide, including screenings in New York and San Antonio.

Katie said: “As a female film director, it’s a very hard industry to break into so I am doing my best to help break down that barrier by creating films that can be enjoyed by a wide audience worldwide.”

Run Run As Fast As You Can is a chase film with an emotional twist about a group of children being pursued through woods by an unknown band of adults.

Katie said: “We have most of the team secured, including a multi-award winning director of photography, an editor who worked on the Theory of Eve- rything and a special effects designer who’s worked on Doctor Who, Harry Potter and Call the Midwife.”

To donate visit http://tinyurl. com/gnjtynu

Film director Katie Smith