Kinder Labatt is a Canadian writer, producer, and filmmaker known for her sharp wit and exploration of gender and political themes through satire and comedy. She has produced a diverse range of projects—narrative shorts, documentaries, and stop-motion animations—that have been showcased at film festivals worldwide.
Her debut short film, Free Pot, inspired by the early silent film era, premiered at the 2018 Crown Heights Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY.Her original pilot script, REALITY, won the inaugural Charles J. Brucia Award at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2019. Kinder’s MFA thesis film, Bag Lady, earned the Topic Studios Award for Excellence in Producing and was featured as a case study in Maureen Ryan’s Producer to Producer (3rd Edition). The film is currently being developed into both a feature and a stage musical.
In 2023, she received the Best Horror Script prize from William Goldstein for her genre-bending comedy horror feature, Miss Death, which she plans to bring to the big screen. She has also received several prestigious production grants from organizations including Indian Paintbrush, Phil Johnston, and the Sloan Foundation.
Kinder’s recent producing credits include the 2025 Toronto Film Critics Awards and the upcoming documentary You Had to Be There, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
