Person
Cynthia Wade
Directing
Biography
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.
Known for
The Oscars
Self
Heart Felt
Director
Freeheld
Producer
Shelter Dogs
Director
MerPeople
Director
In the Family
Director of Photography
Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story
Director
Admission Possible
Executive Producer
Mondays at Racine
Director
The Flagmakers
Director
Filmography
- 2026Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris StoryDirector
- 2026Admission PossibleExecutive Producer
- 2024Good Enough AncestorDirector
- 2023MerPeopleDirector
- 2022The FlagmakersDirector
- 2021SproutlandDirector
- 2018GritDirector
- 2016Generation StartupDirector
- 2015FreeheldProducer
- 2015Heart FeltDirector
- 2015The GnomistProducer
- 2012Mondays at RacineDirector
- 2010Born SweetDirector
- 2008In the FamilyDirector of Photography
- 2007FreeheldDirector
- 2005Three of Hearts: A Postmodern FamilyAdditional Camera
- 2003Shelter DogsDirector
- 2002The Collector of Bedford StreetDirector of Photography
- 1999Grist for the Mill
- 1953The OscarsSelf
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