Karin Rownd Kwiatkowski

2010 to Present: Producer of six documentaries, six short narrative productions. Producer credits include two Gold and two Silver Remi awards from Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. Three of these documentaries screened at the Sedona International Film Festival; one documentary screened at the Herberger Theater in Phoenix; one narrative film screened at the Timecode NOLA film festival in New Orleans; and one narrative film screened at the Pentedatillo Film Festival in Italy. February 2014: Co-founder and producer at Bigger Stick Entertainment. August 2013 to Present: Creator of the Parallax Series of historical novels under the pen name of Annie Armstrong, including My Sun and Moon and The Priestess and the Shepherd King. Available on Amazon. Editor (in Final Cut Pro 7) of two documentaries and one narrative film trailer. 2013 Spring Semester, Sedona Film School, Advanced Film Studies, Narrative Filmmaking. 2010 graduate of the Zaki Gordon Institute (ZGI) for Independent Filmmaking, Sedona, Arizona. ZGI Awards: Excellence in Screenwriting (documentaries); Best Writing (for both film and documentaries); and Best Film (for both film and documentaries) for the thesis documentary Robin Hood of the Bayous about early New Orleans history. Nominations included best director and best set production design. 1996-1998: Producer, writer, director for Discover Wisconsin TV, a regional travel show airing weekly to 700,000 viewers in five states. Also co-creator of DW-TV Magazine to accompany the Discover Wisconsin television series. Assignments included co-writing and directing television and radio commercials. Co-author of The Eleventh Commandment, a novel and screenplay about Jean Lafitte and early New Orleans' history which won screenplay awards from the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival and Worldfest Charleston International Film Festival. Researcher and writer for Texas Highways Magazine.