The Summer I Turned Pretty and Other Teenage Love Triangles: Episodic Directing with Katina Medina Mora

Katina Medina Mora is a Mexican-American director and writer working across television, film, and theatre. She has built a dynamic international television career directing series like The Summer I Turned Pretty on Amazon, where one of her episodes became one of the season’s top rated. She has directed episodes of Emily in Paris on Netflix, Firefly Lane, Selena: The Series, and is one of the lead directors of XO, Kitty, Netflix’s global YA series shot in Korea. She also helmed the Season 2 finale of Swagger on Apple TV. On stage, she most recently directed Spirit of the People, the new play by Jeremy O. Harris at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In this episode Katina shares how she approaches episodic directing, how she got her start and advice for filmmakers like you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices