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Kait McLaughlin is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and creative producer with experience in features, television, and commercials.

Her debut feature Hostile Border premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, winning both the Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize in Directing. Hostile Border was released theatrically and on VOD by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2016. The LA Times hailed the film as an “effective crime thriller with a strong visual sense, intriguing tempo and effective economy of words.” Paste Magazine noted,“McLaughlin gives her characters incisive dialogue that keeps the human relations front and center.”

McLaughlin has several projects in development, including Loyal, which placed on The Black List website with a score of 9, rated as a top 10 Thriller on Coverfly’s The Red List, and was named a quarterfinalist for the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship. Her screenplay, The Murphys, received the Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay from the Nantucket Film Festival and was selected for participation at  the Screenwriters Colony Writers-in-Residence Program and Film Independent's Screenwriters Lab.

McLaughlin wrote and produced a Telly-award winning commercial campaign for Black Lives Matter (2020) and directed a business success spotlight short for Meta Technologies featuring shoe brand Cariuma (2022).

She served as the writer/ supervising story producer on the Amazon Original Doc Series Always Jane (2021). She served as the story producer on Abled: The Blake Leeper Story (2023), and on the hit Netflix Doc Series Escaping Twin Flames (2023), which received the ACE Eddie award for Best Edited Documentary in 2023. 

Most recently,  she served as a consulting producer on Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution which will premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival before its release on Netflix.  She’s currently in post-production on the Netflix Doc Series Treasure Hunters, coming in 2025.