Kate Hickey won the Cinema Prosperite grand prize for a short documentary she produced and edited on TOMS Shoes
Kate Hickey
Kate Hickey is an Australian Producer and Editor who lives in Los Angeles. She has an English literature and psychology degree from Sydney University and attended Sydney Film School, where she was awarded the ‘Sculpting Pictures Award’ for film editing.
After film school, Kate moved to the United States to pursue editing work in feature films. She has edited two independent features, Celluloid #1 and American Combatant, which showed at Slamdance, Tribeca, Rotterdam and NY Underground, and has edited many of Dolph Lundgren’s films. She now assists acclaimed American editor Dylan Tichenor, who edited films such as There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain, and The Royal Tenenbaums. She also worked on The Town (Dir- Ben Affleck,) Whip It (Dir – Drew Barrymore,) and Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Dir – Peter Sollett.)
Kate recently won the Cinema Prosperite grand prize for a short documentary she produced/edited on TOMS Shoes. She also recently produced and edited a short film called ‘Emilia Eckle’ for director Alyssa McClelland, which was selected by Qantas Inflight Entertainment Program as well as many other festivals. In addition to this short, she produced/edited two other 35mm shorts starring Australian actors Sam Worthington (‘Avatar’) and Ryan Kwanten (‘True Blood’.) She is also currently directing her first documentary feature film on a colorful cast of roller skate dancers on Venice Beach.
About the project
Walking is the primary mode of transportation in the third world and a child's daily walk to get clean water or to go to school can be miles. All odds were against him... he had no experience in the fashion or shoe industries; no one was willing to invest in his project; factories, shoe and fabric makers told him it would be impossible. Everyone told him he was crazy to give a pair of shoes away every time he sold a pair, and that he would never make a profit. Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS Shoes in 2006, creating a compassionate and revolutionary business model: One for One.
Entrepreneurs create products, services and jobs. They expand economies, improve people's lives, provide employment (high and rising wages) and bring about competition. A competitive environment, in turn, gives rise to efficiency, meritocracy and further innovations and entrepreneurial drive.
The potent combination of entrepreneurship and technological innovation can forge an environment that is conducive to further enterprise, involving even government policy in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation.
