Kate Amend, A.C.E.
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In December 2005, Kate Amend received the International Documentary Association's inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing for her work which includes two Academy Award-winning documentary features: INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: Stories of the Kindertransport and THE LONG WAY HOME. Amend also received the 2001 American Cinema Editors' Eddie award for INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS, and edited the 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary short ON TIPTOE: Gentle Steps to Freedom. Her recent film, BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, about the late actress Beah Richards, directed by LisaGay Hamilton and produced by Jonathan Demme, received the Grand Jury award at the 2003 AFI Film Festival, aired on HBO in February 2004, and received a 2005 Peabody Award. COWBOY DEL AMOR, a film she edited and co-produced, received both the Audience and Jury Awards at the 2005 South by Southwest Festival and was broadcast on Showtime in April 2006.
Other credits include THIN (2005) and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SESAME STREET (2005) which premiered at Sundance 2006; PEACE BY PEACE: WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES (PBS, 2004); PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and HBO, 2003); BATAAN RESCUE and THE GREAT TRANSATLANTIC CABLE (PBS' American Experience); THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (Slamdance '99); FREE A MAN TO FIGHT (History Channel, March 1999); TOBACCO BLUES (P.O.V, 1998); and SOME NUDITY REQUIRED (Sundance Film Festival 1998). Other credits include ASYLUM and SKINHEADS USA (HBO America Undercover), and the feature documentaries LEGENDS about the longest running show in Las Vegas; METAMORPHOSIS: Man Into Woman, a Sundance award-winner; and SPREAD THE WORD, a film about the acappella group The Persuasions which premiered at the Smithsonian Institute and on PBS.
Amend was an advisor at the Sundance Institute Editing Lab in June 2004 and 2006, and a speaker at The Edit Room panel at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. She was a juror at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival for the International Documentary Competition.
Amend is on the faculty of the Cinema Department at the University of Southern California and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Cinema Editors, and the International Documentary Association. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University.
Conact: kamend@cinema.usc.edu