Kate Ryan (filmmaker)

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Kate Ryan
Occupation(s) Film editor, Director
Years active2000–present
Spouse Joseph M. Petrick (2010-Present)[ citation needed ]

Kate Ryan is an American director and editor known mostly from her 2007 film Point of View: A Dogumentary which was featured on The Dog Whisperer and won a 2007 Student Emmy Award. It was also a regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards. [1]

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She is currently working on a feature documentary entitled Welcome Nowhere which documents the trials and tribulations of a persecuted community of Romani people living in a settlement of box cars in Bulgaria. [2] "Welcome Nowhere" is narrated by Ethan Hawke., [3] [4]

Early life and career

Kate Ryan was born in Los Angeles, California.[ citation needed ] A graduate of California State University, Northridge, where she majored in film, she began making short films and documentaries in 2000.

Her 2007 thesis film, Point of View: A Dogumentary, won a Student Emmy Award for Best Documentary, and was a regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards.

Other films she has directed and edited include: Miracles: The Chloe Glassborow Story (2009), Miracles: The Per Arne Drangsland Story (2008), which premiered on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, [5] and Catch the Fire: Fruits of Revival (2009). [6]

Her editing work also includes the television shows Hope for Your Home (2008), [7] Restorer Guy [8] (2009) all for TLC (TV channel), as well as the second season of AMC's "The Pitch". She has also served as a casting editor for seasons 2-5 of CBS' Emmy-Award-winning "Undercover Boss". [9]

In 2009 she was a camera operator on the independent film The Mother of Invention and an assistant director on the film Ashes. [9]

She is currently working on the feature-length documentary Welcome Nowhere. [2]

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