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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 wa…
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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), Grit (2019, PBS) 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 50 film awards worldwide.
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2026
Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story
Movie Director
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2026
Admission Possible
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Good Enough Ancestor
Movie Director
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2023
MerPeople
TV show Director
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2022
The Flagmakers
Movie Director
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2021
Sproutland
Movie Director
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2018
Grit
Movie Director
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2016
Generation Startup
Movie Director
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2015
Freeheld
Movie Producer
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2015
Heart Felt
Movie Director
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2015
The Gnomist
Movie Producer
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2012
Mondays at Racine
Movie Director
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2010
Born Sweet
Movie Director
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2008
In the Family
Movie Director of Photography
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2007
Freeheld
Movie Director
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2005
Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
Movie Additional Camera
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2003
Shelter Dogs
Movie Director
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2002
The Collector of Bedford Street
Movie Director of Photography
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1999
Grist for the Mill
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1953
The Oscars
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