KATE AMEND, A.C.E. (Editor/Associate Producer) -- Kate Amend is the editor of the 2001 Academy Award-winning documentary feature, INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: Stories of the Kindertransport and the 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary short ON TIPTOE: Gentle Steps to Freedom. Amend also received the 2001

American Cinema Editors’ Eddie award for Into The Arms of Strangers and edited the 1998 Oscar Winner THE LONG WAY HOME. Her latest film, BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, about the late actress Beah Richards, directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton and produced by Jonathan Demme, received the Grand Jury award at the AFI Film Festival, 2003, and aired on HBO in February 2004.

Other credits include PEACE BY PEACE: WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE (PBS,2004); PANDEMIC: FACING AIDS (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and HBO, 2003); BATAAN RESCUE (PBS’ American Experience, 2003); 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, SKINHEADS USA, and THE MAKING OF THE AGE OF INNOCENCE for HBO, and the feature documentaries LEGENDS about the longest running show in 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.

Her work has appeared in film festivals throughout the world as well as on PBS, NBC, HBO, Lifetime, History, and the Sundance Channel. In addition to her film work, Amend worked as an administrator and historian for Judy Chicago's monumental art exhibit THE DINNER PARTY. She has produced several videos about Chicago’s art including FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT and ATMOSPHERES. Amend is on the faculty of the Cinema Department at the University of Southern California and holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco State University.