Kate Amend is an American documentary film editor whose career spans more than thirty years. She is known for being a dedicated editor who finds the emotional center of each scene she works with.[1] A member of American Cinema Editors, Amend is the recipient of an Eddie Award for Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001);[2] she was nominated for a 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]
Kate Amend | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Film editor |
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
References
- Gabriella, Oldham (2012). First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520273504.
External links
- Kate Amend at IMDb