Catherine Wyler Pro

Catherine Wyler has been a studio executive, an independent producer of film and television, and she has held leadership positions at major American cultural institutions. She is currently developing two documentaries and a narrative film.

Her productions include the celebrated Warner Bros. feature film MEMPHIS BELLE, and documentaries: Emmy-nominated DIRECTED BY WILLIAM WYLER and WITNESS TO HOPE, a biography of Pope John Paul II.

From 2001 through 2009, she was the founding Artistic Director of the Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival in Rochester, New York, which celebrated women in creative positions behind the camera.

In the 1980’s, she was Senior Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures and Director of Cultural and Children’s Programming at the Public Broadcasting Service. From 1977-81, she was Assistant Director of the Media Arts Program (Film, Radio, Television, Video) at the National Endowment for the Arts.

She has served on film festival juries at Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Chicago and Istanbul, and serves on the board of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capitol and Advisory Committees for Women in Film and Video and the National Gallery of Art.