Kate Amend
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| Occupation | Film editor |
Kate Amend is an American documentary film editor. A member of American Cinema Editors, Amend is the recipient of an Eddie Award for Stories of the Kindertransport (2001);[1] she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for The Case Against 8 (2014).[2] Amend graduated from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University with a master's in humanities, later gaining an interest in film while teaching her discipline at the City College of San Francisco. She worked briefly at a production company of exploitation films before breaking into documentary work as an apprentice editor on Johanna Demetrakas's Right Out of History (1980).[3] Amend is also noted for her work on Birth Story (2012) and The Long Way Home (1997).[4][5]
Partial filmography
- The Long Way Home (1997)
- Stories of the Kindertransport (2001)
- Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
- Man from Plains (2007)
- American Harmony (2009)
- Cowboy del Amor (2009)
- First Position (2011)
- Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (2012)
- Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014)
Citations
- ↑ Oldham 2012, p. 199.
- ↑ "Kate Amend". Television Academy. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on July 26, 2015.
- ↑ Oldham 2012, p. 201–202.
- ↑ Anderson, John (May 25, 2012). "The 'Invisible Art': A Woman's Touch Behind the Scenes". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012.
- ↑ Sperling, Nicole (June 21, 2013). "L.A. Film Fest: Female editors plan to gather for lively forum". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Publishing. Archived from the original on August 14, 2013.
References
- Gabriella, Oldham (2012). First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520273504.
External links
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