Biography

Cynthia Wade is a documentary, commercial & fiction director who has won over 50 film awards worldwide, including an Oscar for Freeheld (2008), an Oscar nomination for Mondays at Racine (2013), an Emmy for The Flagmakers (2023), and an Emmy nomination for Grit (2020). She holds an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University, as well as an MFA in Film from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a member of AMPAS and the DGA. She is represented by CAA.
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