Kathleen Jayme

Kathleen Jayme is an award-winning Filipina-Canadian filmmaker based in Vancouver, BC. Her latest feature film, Naomi Osaka: The Second Set, follows 4x Grand Slam Champion, Naomi Osaka, as she returns to tennis after becoming a mom. Her sophomore feature (co-directed with Asia Youngman), I’m Just Here for the Riot, is an ESPN 30/30 that had its World Premiere at Hot Docs 2023. Kathleen is also known for, The Grizzlie Truth (winner of the 2019 “TIFF Pitch This!” Competition and a Crave Original), and Finding Big Country (winner of the 2018 VIFF People’s Choice Award and programmed by Telus, ESPN, ABC, Amazon, Rogers Sportsnet, NBA TV, and Air Canada). In 2021, her short film Born Identities premiered at TIFF and in 2022 she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Writing in a Web Program or Series for Invasion of the Murder Hornets, an episode of the CBC GEM documentary web series Farm Crime. Kathleen is currently working on a Crave four part documentary series about the Canadian Women's Rugby's quest for gold at the 2025 World Cup. 

She is the winner of the 2019 TIFF Pitch This! competition, an alumni of the 2019 Netflix-Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative, the 2017 Hot Docs Documentary Channel Doc Accelerator program, and the 2017 Telus Storyhive Banff World Media Festival program. Kathleen is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s Film Production Program and has gone on to direct for ESPN, Nike, the NBA, CBC, NFB, Hana Kuma, and Uninterrupted.

kat@bigcountryfilms.com