Founder Bridge Arts Media, LLC, Founder and Executive Director c3™ and c3:VisionLAB™ (Los Angeles)

Kate McCallum is a storyteller with a diverse and dynamic 30 year professional background in the arts and entertainment industry. 

A Writer/Producer and Consultant, Kate founded Bridge Arts Media, LLC, a transmedia development and production company based in Los Angeles, which specializes in both traditional and new emergent media.  In addition to an active slate of film and television projects, Bridge Arts has recently launched a publishing line and an innovative arts and music label called THE ART OF SOUND.  Her career ranges from positions in arts administration, television and feature film production and writing, to development, content programming and journalism. 

Kate spent 20 years at Universal Studios and Paramount Studios working with some of the top screenwriters and creators of feature films and prime time commercial television on series such as; THE EQUALIZER, CRIME STORY, CHARLES IN CHARGE, MIAMI VICE, THE HUMAN FACTOR, and LAW AND ORDER, and produced a TV movie for NBC called "What Kind of Mother Are You."  As VP of Creative Development with Western Sandblast at Paramount TV, Kate developed, optioned and sold series and long form content to Showtime, UPN, NBC and Paramount.  



Kate left the studios to join the Harmony Channel executive team as VP of Programming and launched this innovative visual music VoD cable channel on Comcast to over 11 million homes.  From 2006-2009 she returned to her roots in classical music and held the position of Board Liaison at Los Angeles Opera and acted as Executive Administrator to General Director and Singer, Plácido Domingo.  Kate has written and collaborated on several original screenplays, TV concepts and a TV pilot, and created and wrote THE GREAT IDEA column, for the popular scr(i)pt magazine featuring interviews with top film and TV screenwriters about the creative process from concept to screen from the writer's perspective.  



Kate is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Television Executive peer group and has served as a judge for the Emmy Awards, the ATAS College Television awards and for the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center 's Hollywood, Health and Society Sentinel for Health Awards.  She is often invited to speak on future trends in media and storytelling.