Katherine Fairfax Wright

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Katherine Fairfax Wright
Nationality American
Occupationdocumentary filmmaker
Known for Call Me Kuchu

Katherine Fairfax Wright is an American filmmaker and documentarian, best known as co-director with Malika Zouhali-Worrall of the 2012 film Call Me Kuchu . [1]

Her other credits include an episode of the PBS television series POV , and the drama films Les vulnérables, Fat Friend and Gabi on the Roof in July.

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