PORTRAITS | CATH

2022

Observing the everyday life, obstacles and creativity of one woman from St Helens, Merseyside; we follow Cath as she reaches 50 and takes stock of her journey in negotiating the balance between life and art.

Having arrived at a point of now-or-never she revisits her alter-ego Kitty O'Shea in a final attempt to shift the balance from occasional maker to practising artist.

FEATURING Cath Shea / Kitty O'Shea

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Rhyannon Parry

FILMMAKER Caroline Smith

COMMISSIONED BY Heart of Glass, supported by

Arts Council England

OFFICIAL SELECTION Manchester Film Festival 2020