GATHER with Catherine Eaton

Weaving our genius' together for storytelling beyond what we know

GATHER is a community of Indigenous and non-Indigenous changemakers coming together on a consistent basis to learn, heal, and grow - together - and a digital storytelling platform that tracks these raw, real, and authentic conversations and tells the story of the wisdom gathered for a purpose throughout this individual and collective journey of expansion.

WHO is Catherine Eaton?

Catherine is a director, writer and actor. She was selected as a Shadowing-Director for Ryan Murphy's Half Program and for Tribeca Film Festival's "Through Her Lens" Director’s Lab and Grant. Catherine is a Statera Mentee under Showrunner Kit Steinkellner and an inaugural Avalon: Story Fellow 2021. Catherine directed/co-wrote the feature THE SOUNDING - starring Harris Yulin (OZARK) and Frankie Faison (THE WIRE) – which won over two-dozen awards on the festival circuit, sold to HBO for international broadcast, myCinema for North American theatrical, and was nominated for the SAMHSA Voice Awards for activism. Catherine’s pilot FREE RADICAL – based on her experience working with freelance news crews in conflict zones – was selected for The Gotham/IFP's Project Forum. Catherine is a Director/Writer at Next Chapter Podcasts where she’s directed seven fiction episodes and wrote/adapted 36 episodes in collaboration with Marcus Gardley (THE CHI), Oscar-winner Jeffrey Witty and others. She wrote and directed the pilot episode of the narrative podcast anthology THE LIGHT AHEAD. Catherine shares an Emmy with the production team on "The Human Toll of Ethanol" (Bloomberg TV). As an actor, she has performed on Broadway. Catherine teaches Screen Directing at Harvard. She is Latinx (Paraguayan) and French-American.

Why is this conversation important?

We have an opportunity to change the stories we tell (which shape what we believe is possible and imagine we can become). To do that, we need to welcome the creation of new methods and spaces designed for and by new/unique/diverse storytellers, such as what I'm calling Collective or Shared Genius (many individual expressions of genius held in concert, rather than revering a single isolated genius). I'm currently doing a deep dive on its intersection with empathy in my own work and the work of my peers.

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Imagine every person whose path you cross today has the potential for genius in them. What if the stories we ingest (from movies to TV to books) and the way they are made all held that as an irrefutable premise? How might that change things?

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