The Visitation – EIC Festival
The Visitation will screen at the Experiments In Cinema Festival this coming April. I am thrilled to announce I will be collaborating with local Albuquerque musicians to create a score for the piece. Stay tune.
Indie Reader Review
Chasing Tarzan received a perfect 4/4 A young girl turns to fantasy to escape from bullying at school and overwhelming responsibilities at home. CHASING TARZAN, Catherine Forster’s memoir of her journey of self-discovery and growth, tells the story of a young girl’s struggles with bullying and its impact on her life and relationships. In […]
The Visitation
New work: THE VISITATION The Visitation explores human exceptionalism and our entitled approach to nature. I am forever awestruck when I come upon a old growth fir tree. The mighty evergreen has played a prominent role in mythology and ceremony for centuries. Conifers were sacred to Attis, the Greek God of vegetation; to the ancient […]
Guest Post Essay
I am pleased to announce the guest post essay, The Long-term Effects of Bullying, written for Madeline Sharples CHOICES book blog. Check out the post, or read it here: The long-term effects of bullying––abuse doesn’t cease when the bullying stops While enjoying my morning coffee and reading the Sunday paper, I stumbled on an article […]
Guest Post
I am happy to announce I was invited to post an essay on the role of imagination when children are tormented. Blog: Chapter Break The role of imagination when children suffer torment I was seven when the bullying began. Parents, teachers, adults in general did nothing but pontificate: sticks and stones may break your bones […]
Women On Writing Tour
I’m thrilled to announce the next blog tour, this one by WOW(women On Writing). the tour encompasses numerous interviews and guest post essays. Check in on WOW for the first interview: Nicole Pyles with Catherine Forster Sample: Nicole Pyles: How did your memoir change from first draft to final draft? CF: My first draft was […]
The long-term effects of bullying need not be defining
The long-term effects of bullying are real. Research findings, regardless of their genesis, are remarkably similar: adults who were victims of bullying are more likely to suffer from depression, relationship problems, substance abuse, stress-related shorter life spans, and suicide; bullies who were also bullied, are susceptible to the same problems as their victims, plus they […]
Indy Film Library Amsterdam
Thrilled to announce Longing for a Shadow has been included in Experimental Film Awards by the Indy Film Library Amsterdam. Longing For A Shadow
516 Gallery Albuquerque NM
“Under the Boardwalk,” a single-channel video, will screen at the 516 Gallery Albuquerque from October 16 through January 22nd. The group show, Counter Mapping, explores how tracking and mapping influences the meanings and perceptions of places, and reflects the social and political positions of those executing the ‘defining’. The video component of the program was […]
Prague Independent Film Festival
Very pleased to announce Memory CAre … the long goodbye has been selected for screening by the Prague Independent Film Festival. For more information about the film: