| Kate Ryan | |
| Occupation: | Film editor, Director |
| Yearsactive: | 2000–present |
| Spouse: | Joseph M. Petrick (2010-Present) |
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]
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]
Kate Ryan was born in Los Angeles, California. 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]