Bio
Kaitlyn Busbee is an Iowa-bred, now Brooklyn-based artist. She’s an award-winning filmmaker and current MFA candidate at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in Graduate Film. She’s a Graduate Associate and the recipient of the Maurice Kanbar Scholarship, the Martin Scorsese Scholarship Grant, and awardee of the Black Family Film Prize for her next short film.
Busbee has served as producer, writer, director, director of photography and editor on numerous projects including; feature films, short films, music videos, commercial and episodic content. Most notably, Busbee wore several hats as Co-Director/Producer/DP/Editor for These Hopeless Savages, an independent feature film starring Matt Dellapina (CBS’ Tommy, NBC’s The Blacklist, and Netflix’s The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show), Mackenzie Meehan (CBS’ Bull, HBO’s Vinyl and The Wolf of Wall Street), Sean Lewis (award-winning playwright and contributor to NPR’s This American Life) and Maria Vorhis (award-winning actress and writer). Savages played over 30 festivals worldwide and is now available on Amazon Prime through the film’s distributor, Meridian Releasing.
Busbee is also known for her work as DP/Editor for indie feature, Molly’s Girl, which won a prestigious Cardiff, Wales’ Iris Prize and was available through Netflix. She operated Second Camera for Two Ways Home, a SAG indie feature which made its World Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at Dances With Films, won multiple awards and received distribution through Gravitas Ventures. Her documentary feature shot in Guangzhou, China for the International Writing Program of Iowa, The Legend in My Heart, also played several festivals, and won Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Universe Multicultural Film Festival. Busbee’s short comedy film, Sexpert Franzen, was selected for Tribeca’s 30 Under 30 Film Festival where she was recognized as “one of the next wave of gifted young filmmakers.”
Recently she served as DP/Field Producer for Episode 2 (Uprooted) of the newly released show Through Our Eyes, an HBOMax and Sesame Workshop documentary series about the climate crisis through the eyes of children. She’s just completed her most recent NYU curriculum short film, Bed Bugs, shot in her hometown of Des Moines, IA. Bed Bugs is currently playing film festivals and recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Hudson Valley Film Fest in Warwick, NY.