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Kate Amend

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Occupation
  
Film editor

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Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming

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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); she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for The Case Against 8 (2014). 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). Amend is also noted for her work on Birth Story (2012) and The Long Way Home (1997).

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Partial filmography

  • The Long Way Home (1997)
  • Stories of the Kindertransport (2001)
  • Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
  • Thin (2006)
  • 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)

    • References

    Kate Amend Wikipedia
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