Karen Skloss is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been shown on HBO, at NYC’s MOMA, in wide theatrical release, and in film festivals internationally. “Sunshine,” her first documentary feature as director, premiered at the SXSW film festival and was nationally broadcast on PBS’s Emmy Award winning series, Independent Lens. Skloss’ work as an editor includes the celebrated documentary, “Be Here to Love Me: The Story of Townes Van Zandt” (dir. Margaret Brown) as well as, “Taken by Storm” (dir. Roddy Bogawa), which outlines the storied career of Hipgnosis album artist Storm Thorgerson. She has edited several other documentary features as well as shows for Jerry Bruckheimer Television, A&E, Discovery, TLC and TNT. She is also the drummer for the band, Moving Panoramas.

Karen began her career in film as an actress playing Odile in the feature film “Odile and Yvette at the Edge of the World,” which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1995. “The Honor Farm” is her first narrative feature and a loose follow up to her narrative short, “Smitten” which premiered at The Rotterdam International Film Festival and was distributed through Hart Sharp Video.