Kitty McMurdo-Schad is a Scottish producer working in Glasgow. Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art with a bursary for highest degree classification across the school as a result of her award-winning short documentary (Those Were The Days, 2020), she has gone on to produce digital, commercial and short form work across the globe. Short Lussevaka (dir. Johanna Sutherland, 2020), went on to win the EIFF 2021 New Visions Award, and a commercial campaign for Ramblers Scotland that she co-produced and directed in 2022 hit 4.3m audience impressions online, winning Gold at the EVCOM London Film Awards in the Best Use of a Smaller Budget category.
Kitty has produced campaigns and commercials for clients such as RedBull, NatWest and WHO, having taken crews to the top of the alps and around Formula 1 circuits. Since being selected for GMAC’s Little Pictures 2022–23 scheme, she co-produced another short (Natural Causes, dir. Ryan Williams) after her GMAC film (Hugh, dir. David L. Robertson), and co-founded a production company - Kit n’ Kat Productions - with another producer from the programme. This company was born out of a passion to champion diverse voices and tell stories that resonated with them. She currently works in commercial and is endeavouring to transition to scripted, all the while making work that disrupts, connects, intrigues and empowers people.