Kate McCallum, is a forward-thinking producer, writer, and digital arts and media strategist with an emphasis in IP development, transmedia and new media technology platforms. Kate serves on the National Board of the PGA: Producers Guild of America, is a Board Delegate on the PGA New Media Council, is a member of the TV Academy, the WFSF: World Future Studies Federation, and is the Chair of the Arts & Media Node for The Millennium Project, a global futurist think tank. In 2004, Kate founded her own development and multi-media production company, Bridge Arts Media, LLC, and consults with a variety of clients including Vortex Immersion Media, a company specializing in fulldome 360/VR immersive content and experience design, immersive brand experiences, VR, interactive, live mixed-media performances, and projection mapping. Kate established the Vortex AIR: Artist-in-Residence program, and innovation lab in the Vortex Dome CineTheater at Los Angeles Center Studios. Prior, Kate spent 20 years at Universal and Paramount Studios working in development and production of feature films, and broadcast and cable episodic television with some of the top showrunners and writers in the industry on such shows as; Miami Vice, Law & Order, Equalizer, Gimme a Break, Charles in Charge and The Marshal to name a few. She produced a TV Movie for NBC called What Kind of Mother Are You?, and as VP of Creative for Western Sandblast at Paramount, Kate developed and sold TV movies and off-net series concepts to outlets such as Showtime and UPN. She has produced and or written for traditional, digital and immersive media, created websites, produced live events, conferences, educational workshops, webinars, books, music albums, concerts, fine art, wrote the script for the SOC: Society of Camera Operators' 2015 Lifetime Achievement Awards show, and currently serves as the Managing Editor for the SOC's quarterly Camera Operator magazine. Kate's also been an international guest speaker, and or instructor, at the Hong Kong Design Institute, Singapore Media Academy, the Asian Childrens' Content Conference, the XMedia LAB in Australia, and at the China Science Film and Video Association in Shenzhen, China to name a few. She co-produced and presented "Transmedia Storytelling and Strategy Design" for the PGA and the TV Academy, and was a featured speaker at the Global Leaders Forum in Seoul, Korea addressing the "Future of Entertainment and Media." Kate has pursued a lifelong interest in human potential and consciousness, and in 2004, earned an MA in Consciousness Studies from the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. Kate was awarded an Alumni Achievement Award from Western Michigan University, was appointed as an honorary fellow at SNCR: Society for New Communication Research, and serves as the Chair of the Arts and Media Node of The Millennium Project, a global futurist think tank. Kate is also a philanthropist and is dedicated to using arts and media for social good. As such, she founded a 5013 arts and education organization in 2004 called the c3: Center for Conscious Creativity whose mission is to "Create a Better Future Through Arts and Media." The c3 produces educational events, presents performances and salons, produces an annual symposium called "State of the Arts" in partnership with The Millennium Project, presents an annual FutureVision Award, offers artists a fiscal sponsorship program, and supports the AIR: Artist In Residence program at The Vortex Dome in LA.
