Kate McCallum

Kate McCallum is a forward-thinking producer, writer, author, and digital arts and media strategist with an emphasis in IP development, transmedia and new media technology platforms. Kate is a member of the TV Academy and the PGA: Producers Guild of America where she served as a Board Delegate for two three-year terms on the PGA New Media Council, three years on the PGA National Board, was awarded the 2019 Marc A. Levey Award for exceptional service to the PGA, and spearheaded the launch the PGA Social Impact Entertainment Task Force. Kate is also a member of the WFSF: World Future Studies Federation, and serves on the Advisory Board of The Studio School in Los Angeles. In 2020, IGI Global Publishing released Handbook of Research on the Global Impact of Immersive Media which Kate co-authored and edited with Jacki Morie.

In 2004, Kate founded both the c3: Center for Conscious Creativity www.consciouscreativity.org, and her own development and multi-media production company, Bridge Arts Media, LLC www.bridgeartsmedia.com, 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 www.vorteximmersive.com.

Kate established the Vortex AIR: Artist-in-Residence Program & Innovation Lab in the Vortex Dome CineTheater at Los Angeles Center Studios. Her most recent projects are: Producer for a VR experience for the Fetzer Institute, Content Strategist and Producer of musician James Hood’s award-winning, highly-successful "Mesmerica," a 360 fulldome art+music project with Moodswings, LLC and Vortex Immersion Media that has been distributed across the US and Canada in over 32 fulldome venues.

Prior, Kate spent 20 years at NBCUniversal and Paramount Studios working in development and production of feature films, and broadcast and cable episodic television with top showrunners and writers in the industry on such scripted television 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 was VP of Creative for Western Sandblast at Paramount for whom 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, produced live events, industry conferences, educational workshops, concerts, books, music albums, and since 2015 she 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 on the topics of “Future Trends in Media and Entertainment,“ “Immersive Media,” and “The Art and Craft of Transmedia Storytelling” at the such events or institutions as the; Hong Kong Design Institute, Singapore Media Academy, the Asian Childrens’ Content Conference, XMedia LAB in Australia, the China Science Film and Video Association in Shenzhen, China, and TiE Global Summit in Mumbai, India 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 makes her home and studio in Los Angeles, CA.