Kara N. Lindstrom's Biography

I work in the movie business as a Production Designer, Set Decorator and Writer, which means that I have my share of union cards. I also write fiction.  My  credits as Production Designer include Dear John (directed by Lasse Hallström, staring Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, and Richard Jenkins),  Polish Wedding  (directed by Theresa Connelly and starring Claire Danes, Lena Olin and Gabriel Byrne), Guy (directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg; starring Hope Davis and Vincent D'Onofrio) and Cold Around The Heart (directed by John Ridley; starring David Caruso and Kelly Lynch).  As set decorator I have worked on French Kiss (directed by Lawrence Kasdan; starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline), Strange Days (directed by Kathryn Bigelow; starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett), When a Man Loves a Woman (directed by Luis Mandoki; starring Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia), In the Line of Fire (directed by Wolfgang Petersen; starring Clint Eastwood), The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (directed by Arne Glimcher; starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas) and most recently Race to Witch Mountain (directed by Andy Fickman), Named one of Variety’s “10 screenwriters to Watch,” I wrote the screenplays for Killing Me Softly  (directed by Kaige Chen; starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes) and A Time for Dancing (directed by Peter Gilbert), for which I earned an Emmy nomination.   My novel Sparkle Life was published by in 2006. I live in Los Angeles and Paris.