Kate Amend is an 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.^[1] A member of American Cinema Editors, Amend is the recipient of an Eddie Award for Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2001);^[2] she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for The Case Against 8 (2014).^[3] She was the editor on two Academy Award-winning films: Into the Arms of Strangers (2014) and the Long Way Home (1997).^[4] She is the recipient of the International Documentary Association’s inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. Amend graduated from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University with a master's in humanities, later gaining an interest in film while teaching her discipline at the City College of San Francisco. She worked briefly at a production company of exploitation films before breaking into documentary work as an apprentice editor on Johanna Demetrakas's Right Out of History (1980).^[5] Amend is also noted for her work on Birth Story (2012) and The Long Way Home (1997).^[6][7]

• The Long Way Home (1997)
• Stories of the Kindertransport (2001)
• Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (2003)
• Thin (2006)
• Man from Plains (2007)
• American Harmony (2009)
• Cowboy del Amor (2009)
• First Position (2011)
• Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (2012)
• Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (2014)
• Sands of Silence: Waves of Courage (2016)

• Gabriella, Oldham (2012). First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520273504.

• Kate Amend at IMDb
• "USC Cinematic Arts | School of Cinematic Arts Directory Profile". cinema.usc.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-11.