GOOD TALK WITH CYNTHIA KANE
Cynthia Kane co-created Sundance Channel’s DOCday bringing Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet’s The Staircase (2006 Peabody, Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Awards) to US television. At ITVS, she shepherded over 150 international and U.S. co-productions for public media. At Al Jazeera America, she commissioned documentaries and series including Albert Maysles’ final work, In Transit. She exec-produced New Eyes by Hiwot Admasu Getaneh (Venice, TIFF, Rotterdam), worked on Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbül's Letters from Baghdad about the extraordinary life and times of Gertrude Bell, co-produced Kim A Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole’s Lessons From a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane, a Netflix Original Documentary, exec-produced The Letter by Kenyan filmmakers Maia Lekow and Chris King (IDFA 2019 ), produced Maria Finitzo’s The Dilemma of Desire (to premiere at SXSW 2020; Hot Docs and AFIDocs 2020) and co produced Us Kids with Kim A Snyder, Maria Cuomo Cole and Lori Cheatle (Sundance Film Festival 2020, Human Rights Award at Full Frame 2020.)