Cathy Zheutlin

Teaches at New York Open Center

For 40 years Cathy Zheulin has been making films that explore consciousness and encourage progressive change. While in college in the ’70s, she joined the Santa Cruz Women’s Media Collective, which produced a series of cable TV programs on women’s issues. 

Cathy was one of the first women in North America to be a camera assistant and documentary cinematographer. She directed and produced a short, humorous, personal film called Lost Love (1982), and in 1986 produced the documentary Just One Step about the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, a nine-month cross-country journey of roughly 500 dedicated souls. 

Cathy also became a healer in the craniosacral biodynamic modality, and co-created Holy Rascals, a project that generated short videos about the perennial wisdom of spiritual elders and the cutting-edge teachings of independent spirituality (transcending theology and religion).