Kari Skogland

Kari Skogland is a Canadian filmmaker. In 2016, she co-founded independent production company Mad Rabbit. Her most recent project is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a television series for Marvel Studios.

Kari Skogland
Skogland at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupations	Film director television director screenwriter film producer television producer
Years active	1994–present

Career

Skogland started as an editor. Then she moved on to directing, starting with award-winning television commercials and music videos. Then she became a director of television shows, beginning with an episode of 1994's Dead at 21 and five episodes of 1996's Traders. Traders was nominated for several Geminis including Best Director, and won Best Series.

Her first film, The Size of Watermelons, won the Silver Award at WorldFest Houston. Her CBC film White Lies was nominated for several Geminis and an International Emmy and won a Tout Ecran. She also directed 50 Dead Men Walking starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Rose McGowan in March 2009. She directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, The Borgias and in 2014 the miniseries Sons of Liberty and episodes of the History Channel's Vikings. In 2017 and 2018, she directed several memorable episodes of Hulu's original series, The Handmaid's Tale, including the Season 1 finale. She described her process for directing the show as, "Communication, curiosity and being open to an outcome that is different from what I have planned."

Skogland has spoken out about the glass ceiling for women directors in the film industry. Speaking about the production of The Handmaid's Tale in 2018, she said, "People say they can’t find female directors, but the reason for that is there’s no access, no entry point. They don’t appear overnight—you have to create a space where they can grow and be discovered."

In 2021, Skogland was announced as the new director for the upcoming Cleopatra biopic starring Gal Gadot, replacing Patty Jenkins who will still produce the film. In November 2022, Skogland signed on to direct Wind River: The Next Chapter.

Personal life

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Kari Skogland is married to film editor Jim Munro. They met circa 1979 when Skogland applied to be Munro's assistant, which led to Skogland getting the job and the two also starting a personal relationship. They have two daughters, MacKenzie and Aislin.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Writer	Producer
1996	The Size of Watermelons	Yes	No	Yes
1997	Men with Guns	Yes	No	No
1999	Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return	Yes	No	No	Direct-to-video
2000	I'll Wave Back	No	Yes	No
2002	Liberty Stands Still	Yes	Yes	No
2004	Chicks with Sticks	Yes	No	No
2007	The Stone Angel	Yes	Yes	Yes
2008	Fifty Dead Men Walking	Yes	Yes	Yes
TBA	Wind River: The Next Chapter	Yes	No	No	Post-production
TBA	Cleopatra	Yes	No	No	Pre-production

Television

TV series

Year	Title	Credited as		Notes
		Director	Executive Producer
1994	Dead at 21	Yes	No	Episode: "Gone Daddy Gone"
1994–95	Catwalk	Yes	No	6 episodes
1995	Heritage Minutes	Yes	No	2 episodes
1996	Traders	Yes	No	5 episodes
1997	La Femme Nikita	Yes	No	Episode: "Charity"
1998	Sins of the City	Yes	No	Episode: "The Hurt Business"
1998	The Crow: Stairway to Heaven	Yes	No	2 episodes
2000	Family Law	Yes	No	Episode: "The Witness"
2001–03	Queer as Folk	Yes	No	3 episodes
2004	The L Word	Yes	No	Episode: "Listen Up"
2005	Terminal City	Yes	No	2 episodes
2009–12	The Listener	Yes	No	8 episodes
2009	Cra$h & Burn	Yes	No	2 episodes
2010	Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures	Yes	No	2 episodes
2010	Shattered	Yes	Yes	Directed 2 episodes
2011	Being Erica	Yes	No	Episode: "Being Ethan"
2011	Endgame	Yes	No	Episode: "Polar Opposites"
2012	Boardwalk Empire	Yes	No	Episode: "Blue Bell Boy"
2012–13	The Borgias	Yes	No	6 episodes
2013	The Killing	Yes	No	Episode: "Seventeen"
2013	Under the Dome	Yes	No	Episodes: "Outbreak", "The Endless Thirst"
2013	Longmire	Yes	No	Episode: "A Good Death is Hard to Find"
2013	Copper	Yes	No	Episode: "Beautiful Dreamer"
2014	Once Upon a Time in Wonderland	Yes	No	Episode: "And They Lived..."
2014	Vikings	Yes	No	2 episodes
2014	Power	Yes	No	2 episodes
2015	Sons of Liberty	Yes	Co-executive	Directed all 3 episodes
2015	Penny Dreadful	Yes	No	Episode: "Memento Mori"
2015	Tyrant	Yes	No	Episode: "The Other Brother"
2015	Fear the Walking Dead	Yes	No	Episodes: "Not Fade Away", "Cobalt"
2015	The Bastard Executioner	Yes	No	Episode: "Piss Profit / Proffidwyr Troeth"
2016	House of Cards	Yes	No	Episode: "Chapter 50"
2016	The Americans	Yes	No	Episode: "The Rat"
2016–17	The Walking Dead	Yes	No	Episodes: "The Next World", "Hostiles and Calamities"
2017	The Punisher	Yes	No	Episode: "Resupply"
2017–18	The Handmaid's Tale	Yes	No	5 episodes
2018	Condor	Yes	No	2 episodes
2019	NOS4A2	Yes	Yes	2 episodes
2019	The Rook	Yes	No	2 episodes
2019	The Loudest Voice	Yes	Yes	Directed 2 episodes
2021	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier	Yes	Yes	all 6 episodes
TBA	Firebug	Yes	Yes	Upcoming miniseries

TV movie

Year	Title	Credited as
		Director	Producer	Writer
1998	Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	Yes	No	No
1998	White Lies	Yes	No	No
2000	The Courage to Love	Yes	No	No
2000	Nature Boy	Yes	Yes	Yes
2001	Zebra Lounge	Yes	No	No
2003	Riverworld	Yes	No	No
2006	Banshee	Yes	No	No
2006	Rapid Fire	Yes	No	No

External links

• Kari Skogland at IMDb
• Kari Skogland at AllMovie
• Kari Skogland at Rotten Tomatoes
• Kari Skogland at Metacritic
• Kari Skogland on Directors Guild of Canada