The Film & Digital Media Visiting Artist Series presents:
Kate Amend, Editor (LA)
Public Lecture: Monday, April 23, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 9:00PM
Location: Communications 150 (Studio C)
Workshop: Tuesday, April 24
Time: 2:00 - 3:30PM
Location: Communications 139
Bio:
Kate Amend is the editor of the Academy Award-winning documentary features The Long Way Home (1998) and Into The Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindrtransport (2001) for which she received the American Cinema Editors' Eddie award. She teached fiction and documentary production courses for USC.
Amend edited the 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom and the Peabody Award inner Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. She is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Institute's Documentary Storyteling Lab and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' Academy.
Amend is on the Board of Directors of the American Cinema Editors and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. In 2005, she received the inaugrual award for Outstanding Documentary Editing Award from the International Documentary Association.
Photo credit: Jill Orschel