We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Katrina Cebreiro a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Katrina, thanks for joining us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

I learned in two ways; in school through my education and on set with hands on training. I think communication skills are most essential but also knowing techniques to your craft. To speed up the learning process I would practice my craft or educate myself every day even if it’s just for ten minutes. The only thing that stood in my way was procrastination!

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Katrina Cebreiro is an award winning filmmaker, screenwriter, director, & producer from Buena Park, CA.

Katrina just finished a film project titled “Inheriting Hood” about a girl who tries on the hood life, after being jumped, with the help of her long lost cousin in order to retaliate.

Her film “Ghost Boyfriend” won Top Film of 2022 of Indie Night Film Festival created by Jamie Fox’s producing partner Dave Brown. The film also took home an award in the episodic category of the Official Latino Film Festival in 2022. Her short film “Federal Approved Parent,” starring Liliana Montenegro from Sacrifice on BET, won Best Sketch Comedy and Best Sketch Comedy Actress at the HBO Sponsored Official Latino Film Festival.

Her short film “Addict” was also the Official Selection at the festival the previous year, which starred Emilio Garcia-Sanchez from The Society on Netflix and Danielle Vega from East Los High on Hulu.

Also, her short films have screened at critically raved festivals such as the Catalina Film Festival, and has been featured on NBC, Deadline, and VoyageLA. In 2017, she was a finalist in the notorious Sundance TV Lab.

She has her MFA in Screenwriting and her BA in Cinema & Television Arts from CSUF. Katrina started in the industry with internships and she has since then worked her way up. She has worked on notable productions and studios such as TMZ, Conan, and Warner Bros. She also worked as a director’s assistant for Infamous (2020) and a producer on critically raved indie feature Psychosynthesis (2020).

Katrina just released her first big project; an independent tv series now available on Prime Video and Tubi. To learn more please visit www.miscellanea.tv

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

Yes I would love to tell more creative stories than we have currently on tv and film in America.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Yes i invest what my earnings working on set into my film projects

Contact Info:

• Website: Katrinacebreiro.com
• Instagram: @mastercon10der
• Youtube: @miscellaneatv