Katy Mejia is a jack of trades within the media landscape. Starting back in 1998 when she won an award at SXSW for a website she designed for her all-female DJ crew. She moved from Austin to NYC in 2003 and continued DJing and making music while working as an Art Director and freelance creative for such diverse clients as Carol’s Daughter (natural beauty products), HBO, Comedy Central, VH1.com, MTV.com and Live Nation. While living in Brooklyn, she forged lasting connections with unique musicians, teaching artists and filmmakers, merging her passion for music and film with her husband, Joél Mejia, with Things Are Changing Productions, LLC. They released the feature documentary film, TIME IS ART (2015) which screened worldwide and is available on the Amazon Prime and Gaia platforms.

Starting in 2017, she switched gears and began teaching video, music production and Adobe Premiere certification to high school students in the Bronx, placing them in paid digital media internships. In 2022 she moved to the Hudson Valley, where she and her husband continued building Mi Oh My Farms, a cooperative of farmers growing microgreens and medicinal culinary mushrooms. She manages and creates content for social media accounts with large audiences, using her 15+ years of video editing, writing, art direction and graphic design experience. She also produced a podcast about indie film for the Woodstock Film Festival. Her latest documentary film, BIRTH FROM THE EARTH (2023) funded by Hudsy’s Community Content Fund features her homebirth midwife Nubia Martin and addresses black maternal health issues. The film won best documentary short at MOM Film Festival 2023 and runner-up for best short at the Denton Black Film Festival.

Resume/CV

Linked In / Resume

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Photographic & Video Arts from the University of Texas at Austin (2000)

SELECT FULL TIME/FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
Communications & Marketing Director, Podcast Producer – Woodstock Film Festival 2/23-8/25
Social Media Manager – Children’s Health Defense 6/22-2/23
Art Director – Penton Media 5/10-8/14
Freelance Creative – Carol’s Daughter Beauty Products 11/08-11/09
Freelance Art Director – Sothebys.com 6/07-6/09
Art Director –  Deep Focus 4/06 – 5/07
Animator/Designer – Atmosphere BBDO 11/04-3/06

SKILLS
Graphic Production:
Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere

Website Production:
WordPress, Squarespace

Marketing, Social Media and Communications
Buffer/Hootsuite, Youtube, Pinterest, Instagram, Mailchimp, iContact, Canva

Video Production
Black Magic Cinema Camera, Cannon 5D/7D, Go Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere
Audio Production: Logic Pro X, Garageband (desktop + iPad)
Pre-Production/Writing/Content Creation/Treatments

Teaching
K-12 Curriculum Design

TEACHING & MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Career & Technical Education Teacher (Music Production & Media Arts + Career & Financial Management),  Internship Coordinator, Crotona International High School 2017- September 2021
Reel Works Visual Poem Workshop at Franklin Douglas Academy (2017)
MIMA Music (Songwriting + Music video) in school program at Maxwell High Sept-Dec 2016
HBO Young Media Minds Film Scoring with Garageband workshop Sept-Oct 2016
Reel Works Teen Editing Workshop (Makers.com) Summer 2016
Dare to Dream Youth Media Arts Project Sept-January 2014-2015
Music teacher, Red Hook Art Project 2013-2016
Stoked Snowboarding Mentor, 2012-201

CERTIFICATIONS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
New York State Career & Technical Education Teaching Certification in Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communication
BRIC Brooklyn Arts Media television studio production
Community Word Project Advanced Teaching Artist Training 2016-2017
Community Word Project 2015 Summer Institute Teaching Artist Training
Adobe Premiere 101, New York Film Academy

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), SoundExchange, Women in Music, Independent Filmmaker Project

Documentary Films
Birth From the Earth (2023)
Time is Art: Synchronicity & the Collective Dream (2015)
Time is Art: The Frequency of Love (in progress)

SELECTED SCREENINGS
Birth From the Earth (2023) Rosendale Theater, MOM Film Festival, Denton Black Film Festival, DC Black Film Festival, Yonkers Lofi Film Festival, Working Films/Facing Race Conference, Social Justice Film Festival

Time is Art (2015) premiered in 8 countries on 11/11/15
AMC Theater Screenings (2015-2016):
November 11 2015 8:30pm–10:09pm
San Francisco, CA at AMC Van Ness 14Wednesday November 11 2015 8:30pm–10:09pm
Austin, TX at AMC Barton Creek Square 14 Wednesday November 11 2015 8:30pm–10:09pm
New York, NY at AMC Loews Kips Bay 15 & IMAX
Thursday August 11 2016 8:30pm–10:34pm
White Marsh, MD at AMC Loews White Marsh 16 Promoted by Robin Gunkel
Wednesday July 20 2016 6:30pm–8:36pm
Columbus, OH at Gateway Film Center Promoted by Women of Vision Events
Wednesday April 27  2016 6:30pm–8:36pm
Hoyts Cinema – Millenium, Perth, Australia Promoted by Mark Bentley
Wednesday January 13 2016 7:30pm–9:14pm
South Miami, FL at AMC Sunset Place 24 Promoted by Empowered Living Solutions, Mission 11:11 & The School of Invisible Arts

Other Film Festival Screenings
“Bonfire Man” music video, Radar Hamburg International Film Fest 2011
“Medicine Man” music video, International Film Festival of Cinematic Arts
“The Hurricane”, Red Hook International Film & Video Fest 2013

Selected FIELDWORK
Matter & Psyche Symposium Presentations– camera, editor
Time is Art: Synchronicity & the Collective Dream feature film, (2015) creator, director, camera, assistant editor, composer, art director
SyncStories web series  – editor, camera
Dream Circle – “Dark Star” Music Video – camera, editor, art direction
Dream Circle – “Medicine Man” Music Video – camera, art direction

ALBUMS
Dream Circle – Soul Technology Remixes (2017)
Dream Circle – On Your Way Remixes (2017)
Dream Circle – Soul Technology (2016)
Time is Art Original Film Soundtrack (2015)
Dream Circle – Lost Art The Pherixx Remixes (2014)
Dream Circle – So Many Things Remixes (2013)
Dream Circle – Lost Art (2012)
HandinHand – Green Streets (2008) 

Selected Music Videos
Dream Circle – “Simple Things”
Dream Circle – “Power”
Dream Circle – “Medicine Man”
Dream Circle – “On Your Way”

SELECTED EVENTS & LIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
Summer Rising 1, 2 & 3, film screening, live performances and DJs, 2011-2014
TIME IS ART (2015) Fundraising Launch Party @ Culture Fix 2014
Dream Circle live @ Nublu NYC  2016
Dream Circle live @ Lit Ultrabar, Philadelphia, PA, 2014
SXSW 2002 – DJ set

AWARDS & FESTIVALS
MOM Film Festival, Denton Black Film Festival, BIRTH FROM THE EARTH (2023)
CurrentTV VCAM Finalist (top 6), “For Bands on the Go” Samsung ad 2011
Webby Award Nomination, Art Direction, HBO’s Rome Season 2 Teaser campaign
Photo District News Annual 2006 winner, Noelletheard.com
Finalist for “Best online zine” SXSW Interactive 2002
“Best Music Website” SXSW Interactive 1999

CROWDFUNDING
-Successful initial Indiegogo campaign for ‘Time is Art’ film shoot in Joshua Tree, CA. Raised over $5k
-Raised $11,879 for Time is Art (2015) feature film finishing funds

LANGUAGES
Basic Spanish