Catherine Clinch

Catherine is a writer/producer with thirty years of experience in the entertainment industry. In the early years of her career, Catherine wrote 17 episodes of network television for hit series including Hunter, Jake & The Fatman, KnightRider, Hart to Hart, The Love Boat, True Confessions and Foul Play. It is interesting to note that 9 first drafts were "greenlit" straight into production without rewrite. She wrote and developed (unproduced) movies made for television with Gross-Weston Productions and ABC Television. She was elected to and served a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, west. After making the decision to be a stay-at-home mom, Catherine undertook a series of part-time positions that enabled her to work on flex time schedules - based on the school schedules of her three sons. She wrote a few articles for Creative Screenwriting Magazine and worked her way up through the ranks of columnist to contributing editor and was ultimately named Associate Publisher of the magazine and associate coordinator of the Screenwriting Expo. Her relationship with the magazine lasted for 12 of the first 13 years of its publication. During that same period of time, Catherine became an Adjunct Assistant Professor and taught accredited courses in screenwriting and advanced video production at Loyola Marymount University and California State University Dominguez Hills. She designed and taught the innovative Entertain.ment - the first university-accredited course in writing and producing live interactive broadcast for the Internet. In that course, she supervised the first interactive student production with real-time participants throughout the United States and Indonesia. Through the Department of Mediated Instruction and Distance Learning at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Catherine wrote, produced and presented more than 225 hours of Live educational television that was broadcast throughout the greater Los Angeles area on the University-affiliated channel. She authored a primer for PBS Learning Satellite Service to explain the distance learning process from the course-creator's point of view. From that primer, she has been quoted and referenced in at least two doctoral dissertations. A firm believer in the importance of performing community service, Catherine spent many years volunteering in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She was appointed Commissioner of Special Education; appointed to the State-mandated Community Advisory Committee on Special Education; appointed to the Communications Committee of the Chanda Smith Consent Decree; appointed to the Disabilities Awareness Month Task Force. In 2000, she was nominated for the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Women Who Make A Difference" Award. Catherine attended the University of South Florida where she earned a B.A. in Theatre/Film (completed at the age of 19). As the recipient of a teaching fellowship, she earned an M.A. in Speech Communication (completed at age 21). She pursued post-graduate studies in Film at Columbia University and was accepted into the highly-coveted Director's Guild Training Program. Catherine blogs for The Huffington Post. She also writes articles about digital media for Studio System News. Catherine plans to spend the rest of her career creating high-quality entertainment product that is family-friendly, Christian-friendly, and suitable for the global market.