Full Name
Katharine Thornton
Company
Sharmill Films
Title
CEO
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Katharine Thornton is the CEO of Sharmill Films. Australia’s longest running Independent Film Distributor. Katharine has been with Sharmill Films since 2010 and has an uncanny knack for nurturing content. Consistently recognising filmmakers and stories that translate successfully on screen. She started her career working for Academy Award Winning producer Emile Sherman, has studied at Cambridge Business School, and has a reputation for delivering sensational cinematic experiences.
Katharine has distributed numerous Academy Award, Golden Globe and Palme d’Or winning films. Including Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness. Florian Zeller’s The Father, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, and Lady Macbeth starring Florence Pugh. She works directly with The National Theatre in London, The Australian Ballet and The Met Opera in New York to bring the best of the arts to cinema.
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Established by the preeminent Natalie Miller, AO, who is also the joint managing partner of Australia’s most iconic art house cinema, Cinema Nova. Sharmill Films has a reputation for distributing the world's most prestigious art-house films.
Sharmill Films acquires and exploits all rights for distribution in Australia and New Zealand. However, Sharmill Films prides itself on must-see cinema, in cinema! Be it drama, documentary, or genre, Sharmill Films acquires feature-length, auteur-driven content that demands to be seen by a collective audience.
