Katja Straub is an artist, writer, and filmmaker whose films have screened in numerous festivals and museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Images Festival in Toronto, the Viper Basel in Switzerland and the Museo Nationale Reina Sofia in Madrid. Her short film "All White People Are French" received the Special Jury Award at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin in 2005.

Before moving to Texas, Katja graduated from the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she received her Master in Experimental Film. In Berlin she also held an apprenticeship as a scene painter for the German Opera and worked as a freelance art designer and painter for films and music videos.

Awarded the Homer Lindsey Bruce Fellowship and the Warren E. Skaaren Scholarship, she received her MFA in Film Production at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008, where she is currently teaching film and video production.