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Cynthia Wade is an American television, commercial and film director, producer and cinematographer based in New York City. She has directed documentaries on social issues including Shelter Dogs in 2003 about animal welfare and Freeheld in 2007 about LGBT rights as well as television commercials and web campaigns.
Cynthia Wade is an Oscar-winning, Emmy-winning director working in documentary, fiction, and commercials.
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).
- New York City, New York, USA
- 3 min
- Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Filmmaker Cynthia Wade is trying to get her divorced parents to talk to each other, but that is the last thing they want to do. Nothing ever seems to work out the way Wade hopes it will. At least she has a job (calling out Bingo numbers), a loving family (although her father's new wife is just a few years older than Wade), and a social life (if ...
Cynthia Wade is an Oscar®-winning, Emmy-winning director who works in documentary, commercial and fiction. Her 2023 four-part Netflix docuseries “MerPeople,”…
Oct 16, 2015 · To others, it’s an Oscar-winning documentary short. And still to others, it’s the second most-Googled term on the planet one fateful night in 2008. But for filmmaker Cynthia Wade, the term means all of the above—and most of all, a life-changing, decade-long labor of love.
Dec 8, 2022 · Acclaimed documentarians Cynthia Wade and Sharon Liese have run the merit of short films up the flagpole — Wade even won an Oscar for one, “Freeheld,” in 2007 — and discovered that shorts are...
