In 2024, Kailee’s film CAN premiered at SXSW and won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Short Film. Kailee’s body of work includes commercials, music videos, short films, and long films. Her projects have screened at festivals such as Tribeca, Raindance, SIFF, and Palm Springs, and on platforms like NOWNESS, Director’s Library, Short of the Week, and Vimeo Staff Picks. Kailee first garnered attention in 2019 with The Person I Am When No One Is Looking, a short film that Vulture praised for masterfully balancing personal comedy and tragedy with incisive, layered commentary.
Kailee was born in Tucson, Arizona and raised in Laguna Beach, California. She studied at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and now lives in Los Angeles.
Further Reading:
The Creative Independent - Interview
Director’s Library - Influential Works
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