Contributing Artists

Editor: KATE AMEND, A.C.E.

Kate Amend is an award winning 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. As a member of American Cinema Editors, Amend is the recipient of an Academy Award and Eddie Award for "Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport" (2001); Her film, "Beat: A Black Woman Speaks" garnered her a Grand Jury award in 2003 at the AFI Film Festival, and a Peabody Award in 2005. Additionally, in 2005 she received both the Audience and Jury Awards at the South by Southwest Film Festival for editing and co-producing. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for "The Case Against 8" (2014). She also won an Oscar for "The Long Way Home (1997). She is the recipient of the International Documentary Association's inaugural award for "Outstanding Achievement in Editing." For further credits, please go to IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024569/

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.