- Katie grew up in Indiana as the youngest child of her family with a keen vivid imagination and humorous quirky personality. Movies and books had always been a part of her life. She fell in love with story-telling and their ability to transport someone into another world.
Eventually, her path led her to college where she refined and polished her love for films. She attended Indiana University (as part of IUPUI) with a bachelor's degree in Media Arts & Sciences for video. Through encouragement from others, she ventured into specifically editing. Katie works as a freelance video editor with various clients. She also helps out on local films and in her spare time, works on making film magic with a small group known as Pants Cannon Media. You can most often find her in an 'edit cave' of sorts, usually with her film editor cohort and friend Kylee Wall working on a project.
She is of the mindset that age will never dictate who she is, where she goes, or what she can do. Random facts: a night owl by blood, avid gamer, lover of all things nerdy, coffee addict, and has an identical twin sister 4 minutes older. She loves to read books, including authors such as Neil Gaiman, the magnificent J.R.R. Tolkien, Roger Zelazny, among so many other authors. Anyone who knows her will confirm she adores the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings with a passionate energy.
Other notable experiences: PA on local film Leah not Leia and PA/co-editor on Love Dance. Also, she edited a promotional video for DVD with Indy's Premiere Art & Music Exposition, known as Oranje. Katie actively participates in the 48 Hour Film Project in Indianapolis. In 2011, she was the team's editor on their dark comedy film, Support Group. In 2010, their 48 Hour film Cooper O'Brien and the Magical Mustache won Best Musical Score. The Cooper O'Brien short went on to win South Bend's 3Fest Best Film. Also, Katie interned at Nuvo Newsweekly, making videos of local live events such as music concerts, art fairs, roller derbies, award events, etc. She is an avid lover of cats, and has volunteered work on video content for Cat's Haven (a local no-kill cat shelter) For her capstone project upon graduation, she worked with her partner Aaron Whiteford on a short film adaptation of Roger Zelazny's book "Chronicles of Amber".
Through these projects, she has gained specific experience filming and editing videos for all sorts of purposes and various mediums. While she most of all enjoys video editing, she's also worn all the hats of making a video from start to finish throughout her various endeavors.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Katie Toomey - Katie Toomey is an accomplished LA-based editor with nearly a decade of diverse credits across the broadcast and digital spaces. Born and raised in Indiana, Katie spent the beginning of her career split between freelancing, corporate video, and cutting the few independent film projects available in the Midwest including the feature film "Ingenue" which premiered to a sold out IMAX crowd. She then pivoted into commercial and advertising in North Carolina, serving as a staff editor for the agency Mullen Lowe. There she helmed national campaigns for companies like Pep Boys, Ulta, and Tresemme, working on finished products for broadcast and web/social media, as well as editing pitch pieces for quite a lot of new business. Taking the long way around to California, she's now working her way through the unique LA film scene, including a stint at Imaginary Forces.
Katie is "once a freelancer, always one" at heart, taking on projects to help cats at no-kill shelters, music videos or film trailers, educational promos for kids, and anything else she can help with whenever her time allows. She lives with her 3 cats: Spaz, Meatie, and Momo who are all rescues.
Protip: Her hair is usually quite bright and colourful, all the better to help you spot her in the dark editing rooms.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kylee Pena & Katie Toomey
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