Kate Amend

Kate Amend
Kate Amend
Occupation	Film editor

Kate Amend is an American

Primetime Emmy Award for The Case Against 8 (2014).^[3] She was the editor on two Academy Award-winning films: Into the Arms of Strangers (2014) and the Long Way Home (1997).^[4] She is the recipient of the International Documentary Association’s inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. 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).^[5] Amend is also noted for her work on Birth Story (2012) and The Long Way Home (1997).^[6]^[7]

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)
Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage (2016)

Citations

^ "Some Cutting Remarks about an Ace Editor: Kate Amend". International Documentary Association. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ Oldham 2012, p. 199.
^ "Kate Amend". Television Academy. Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on July 26, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "Kate Amend". americanfilmshowcase.com. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
^ Oldham 2012, p. 201–202.
^ Anderson, John (May 25, 2012). "The 'Invisible Art': A Woman's Touch Behind the Scenes". The New York Times. 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. Archived from the original on August 14, 2013.