Projects in Development
AIDA - Scripted Feature
Based on the acclaimed historical memoir The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Avilés, Producers
FATEFUL HARVEST - Scripted Feature
Based on. the non-fiction book Fateful Harvest by Duff Wilson.
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Avilés, Producers
BOX NO. 1 - Scripted Feature
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Aviles, Executive Producers
Story by Marcela Davison Avilés
CAMINO CHRONICLES - Unscripted Series
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Avilés, Producers
VALLEY OF THE HEART - Scripted Feature
Based on the play by Luis Valdez
Screenplay by Luis Valdez, Kinan Valdez and Akira Boch
Director: Edward James Olmos
Producers:
Based on the acclaimed historical memoir The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Avilés, Producers
FATEFUL HARVEST - Scripted Feature
Based on. the non-fiction book Fateful Harvest by Duff Wilson.
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Avilés, Producers
BOX NO. 1 - Scripted Feature
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Aviles, Executive Producers
Story by Marcela Davison Avilés
CAMINO CHRONICLES - Unscripted Series
Kat Taylor and Marcela Davison Avilés, Producers
VALLEY OF THE HEART - Scripted Feature
Based on the play by Luis Valdez
Screenplay by Luis Valdez, Kinan Valdez and Akira Boch
Director: Edward James Olmos
Producers:
- Luis Valdez Group
- Tom Kat Media
Filmography
Our storytelling illuminates the humanity and heartbeat of social justice. The projects in our filmography seek to uplift voices of racial, gender, disabled and marginalized communities and those who work for environmental justice.
Kat Taylor, LA MISSION (2009)
Director - Peter Bratt
Writer - Peter Bratt
Producer - Benjamin Bratt - Peter Bratt - Alpita Patel
Executive Producers - Tom Steyer, Kat Taylor, Don Nelson
A single-parent ex-con from San Francisco's Mission District finds his personal values challenged when he discovers his son is gay.
Starring Benjamin Bratt and filmed in the Mission District.
Director - Peter Bratt
Writer - Peter Bratt
Producer - Benjamin Bratt - Peter Bratt - Alpita Patel
Executive Producers - Tom Steyer, Kat Taylor, Don Nelson
A single-parent ex-con from San Francisco's Mission District finds his personal values challenged when he discovers his son is gay.
Starring Benjamin Bratt and filmed in the Mission District.
TomKat MeDiA is proud to acknowledge the underwriting support of the TomKat Foundation, for the work of these filmmakers:
Dolores (2017)
Director - Peter Bratt
Writer - Peter Bratt
Produced by Carlos Santana, Peter and Benjamin Bratt and Brian Benson
Co-Producer - Alpita Patel
Associate Producers - Lora O'Connor, Angelica Santana
Executive Producers - Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor with Carlos Santana, Janet MacGillivray Wallace, Regina Kulik Scully
Peabody Award Winning documentary about legendary activist Dolores Huerta, and her development in partnership with Caesar Chavez and other civil rights leaders of the farmworker movement in California, and non-violent activism.
The Women of the Mexican Revolution - A Conversation with Dolores Huerta and Linda Ronstadt (2010)
Marcela Davison Aviles and Susanne St. John-Crane, Executive Producers
Cherokee Word for Water (2013)
Charlie Soap - Producer/Director
Tim Kelly - Co-Writer/Director
Louise Rubacky - Writer/Producer/Editor
Kristina Kiehl - Producer
Perry Pickert - Producer
Paul Heller - Executive Producer
Kat Taylor, Executive Producer
The story of the early career of the first Woman Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, and her galvanizing a desperately poor native community to construct a 12 mile water pipeline and liberate themselves from political and economic oppression.
Becoming Bulletproof (2014)
Michael Barnett - Director
Theodore James - Producer
Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor, Executive Producers
100 Years From Mississippi (2015)
The deeply impactful story of a woman's journey home - 100 Years From Mississippi tells the true story of Mamie Lang Kirkland's return to her childhood home in Mississippi, and the journey to connect her story to the larger impact of America’s legacy of racial violence, which echoes today from Ferguson to New York, Atlanta to Los Angeles. Like many of the six million African Americans who left the Deep South, Mamie’s story is a testament to the courage and hope of her generation.
Winner - Best Documentary - Harlem International Film Festival 2021
Kat Taylor, Executive Producer
Bardo Blues (2017)
Marcia Kimpton, Mark Haining, Justin McAleece - Directors
Marcia Kimpton - Producer
Kat Taylor Executive Producer
A mentally ill man scours the streets of Thailand to uncover the truth about the mother who abandoned him.
Best Summer Ever (2020)
Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer, Executive Producers
An inclusive retake on the ubiquitous high school musical that centers differently abled children and adults in front of and behind the camera, blasting apart the faulty and problematic “deficit view” of fellow human beings who demonstrate how broadly talent is spread if opportunity is not (yet.)
Dear Homeland (2020)
Underwritten with support from the TomKat Foundation
Kat Taylor and Tom Steyer Executive Producers
The story of a DACA student trapped in limbo for 15 years awaiting her ability to fully participate in American society while also still visiting and loving her Mexican homeland.
For Marcela Davison Avilés filmography visit her page on IMDBPro.