The Katrin Cartlidge Foundation

The Katrin Cartlidge Foundation was established to honour Katrin Cartlidge, the unique actress and original company member in Complicité's Mnemonic, who died in 2002. 

Since then, friends and colleagues including Simon McBurney, Stellan Skarsgård, Mike Leigh, Emily Watson, Charlotte Rampling, Danny Glover, Jeremy Irons, Danis Tanovic, Danny Huston and Ken Loach, have awarded bursaries, on behalf of the Foundation, to new emerging voices in film from Senegal, Haiti, Ireland, Syria, China, US, Bosnia, Egypt, Scotland and Palestine.

Culture, in all its forms, can provoke ripples of understanding and inspiration. Culture can hold a mirror to our challenged, damaged world, and the spaces we keep for it have never been more important. 

The Foundation was put on hold during the pandemic but is now restarting, raising money to continue to award new creative voices in film and cultural initiatives around the world. Working again with its long-time collaborator the Sarajevo Film Festival which was born towards the end of the four-year siege of the city, with the aim of overcoming the obstacles of war by promoting the diversity of cultures through art.

The Katrin Cartlidge Foundation, Registered Charity 1104046