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Katrina McGowan (Australia)
Director/Producer
Independent

Katrina is the director and co-producer of How To Poison A Planet, a feature documentary that exposes the global PFAS chemical contamination crisis. Featuring actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, the film was commissioned by Stan and premiered in 2024.

How To Poison A Planet won The Documentary Award at the Walkley Awards in 2024 and Katrina also received a second Walkley Award and a Kennedy Award for her joint investigation into the PFAS contamination of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community, a story prominently featured in the documentary.

She is currently co-directing and co-producing a four-part series with iKandy Films, set to premiere on Stan in 2026.

In 2020, Katrina was a recipient of Screen Australia’s Emerging Filmmaker Enterprise Program.