Cathrine Westergaard (director /CREATOR/PRODUCER)
American director, music video, television commercial director and photographer.
Her work is defined by elegance with a modern twist but still maintains a progressive signature style. She offers the essence of both subtle and unconventional beauty with edge that subverts and transforms the subject. Besides being regularly featured in prestigious magazine editorials worldwide, she recently directed the new digital campaign for the fashion brand XOXO featuring Lilly Aldridge premiering NYFW 2013. Her work has been recently exhibited along side the iconic Helmut Newton at the Annenberg Gallery in LA.
Westergaard's work is continuously evolving while she consistently challenges boundaries with her creative vision. This has brought her opportunities to work with advertising clients, prestigious fashion magazines, celebrities, record labels, and publishing companies throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her directorial music video debut won the MTV competition 'Freshmen' and was placed in worldwide rotation. She is a native New Yorker and spent her childhood amidst artists thanks to her mother Louise Westergaard - best known for the Tony Awards winning musical 'Sophisticated Ladies'. After studying in some of the most prestigious art & design schools in the U.S., she pursued a career as a painter, which eventually led her to find her life's passion in photography and directing. Cathrine currently resides in New York City with her son Jaeden.
JESSICA DORFMAN JONES (screenwriter)
Jessica is the author of three books: The Art of Cheating: A Nasty Little Book for Tricky Little Schemers and their Hapless Victims (Simon & Schuster, 2007), Fed Up (optioned by ABC TV) and Klonopin Lunch (Random House, HC 2012, PB 2013). She has been hailed for her incisive writing and editorial style as well as her wit and unique voice. Jessica is currently represented by CAA and and Writer’s House. She is also a member of the Author’s Guild. As an agent and book producer, Jessica is best known for having pulled the unsolicited manuscript for Legally Blonde out of her slush pile, developing it, and selling it three weeks later to United Artists. Some of the other projects she has produced include VH1’s 100 Greatest Albums (Simon & Schuster); Captain Charles Tyng’s 1870 memoir Before the Wind (Viking); the National Book Critic’s Circle Award Nominee Milking the Moon: A Southerner’s Story of Life on this Planet (Crown Publishing), Bacon: A Love Story (Harper Collins), The Punch Bowl (Sterling Publishing) and DEFinition (Harper Collins Design). Jessica’s involvement with these projects range from editorial and rewriting work to concept creation and complete book production. Jessica is currently at work on the adaptation of Klonopin Lunch as a feature film, writing a new non-fiction book titled Nice Girls Don’t Say That, and producing a documentary of the same title. The Art of Cheating was optioned by Original Media in 2012. Jessica is a member of the New York Bar Association and earned her J.D. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She briefly practiced in the area of women’s health litigation and family law.