Katja Esson is a German-American filmmaker based in Miami, Florida.
After graduating from secondary school in Hamburg, she moved to the United States to study film,[1] earning a Bachelor in Motion Pictures and Theater at the University of Miami, Florida.
[8][9] In 2012, her film Skydancer was nominated for three awards at the Shanghai Television Festival (Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Camera).
[4] Her films have also been broadcast on PBS, HBO and channel Thirteen,[2] as well as Arte and ARD in Europe.
In 2007, Esson received the Simons Public Humanities Fellowship[12] and was nominated for a Rockefeller Media Grant.