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Professional Directions with Filmmaker Cynthia Wade

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, SB23
430 College Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA

Professional Directions with Filmmaker Cynthia Wade

Cynthia Wade’s 2008 documentary Freeheld won a 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and 13 other awards. She was a lead producer on the 2015 fictionalized adaptation of Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell and Michael Shannon. Wade’s 2013 HBO documentary Mondays at Racine was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013. She is the director of the documentaries Grist for the Mill (1999, HBO), Shelter Dogs (2004, HBO), Born Sweet (2009), Living the Legacy (2009, Sundance Channel) and Generation Startup (2016, Netflix), and producer of The Gnomist (2015, CNN). She holds a BA from Smith College and an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University. Wade has won more than 45 film awards worldwide.

The Professional Directions series brings industry experts to campus to speak about their career journeys as screenwriters, playwrights, editors, producers, directors, theatre critics, dramaturgs, and more.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Departments

Department of Performing and Media Arts

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cascal, caspma, perfhum

Contact E-Mail

jpp237@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Jeffrey Palmer

Dept. Web Site

pma.cornell.edu

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the public

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