Katherine Kasirer

k.kasirer@nfb.ca

Born in Montreal, Katherine Kasirer earned a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Communications from McGill University in 1985.  She graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from McGill in 1987.

Katherine began her career cataloguing archival films at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in 1986. She then worked in Stockshot Library at the NFB helping to develop a system to catalogue and index stock footage and continued as Stockshot Librarian for 10 years. Katherine currently works as a librarian in the Audiovisual Reference Centre at the NFB indexing films and providing reference services for filmmakers and staff. Katherine has directed and produced two short films using live action animation and stock footage.