Kate Amend, A.C.E.

Adjunct Faculty

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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 Kindertransport (2001) and teaches fiction and documentary production courses at USC.

She received the 2001 American Cinema Editors' Eddie award for the latter film, and edited the 2001 Oscar-nominated documentary short On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Cinema Editors, and the International Documentary Association. In 2005 she received the inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing from the International Documentary Association.