Cynthia Wade is a NYC-based documentary filmmaker. Her short documentary Freeheld won an Academy Award®, a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and 13 other film festival awards. Wade directed and shot the five-time award-winning HBO documentary Shelter Dogs, which was broadcast in seven countries, as well as the 1999 Cinemax Reel Life documentary Grist For The Mill, which The Hollywood Reporter called "a delight...full of quirky moments and clever humor" and Variety called "a jewel...extremely comical." Wade was co-producer and the principal verite cinematographer for the 1998 PBS documentary Taken In: The Lives of America's Foster Children, which was awarded a Columbia-DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has been cameraperson for PBS, HBO/Cinemax, Bravo, AMC, MTV, A&E, Discovery, TNT, Oxygen, LOGO and The History Channel. Wade's corporate clients have included Intel, the Gap, Met Life and Goldman Sachs. She has directed commissioned documentaries for the National Guard Youth Foundation, Job Corps, Yale University and Phoenix Children's Hospital, among other non-profit clients. Wade teaches digital cinematography at The New School in New York. She received a BA cum laude from Smith College and an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University. Wade runs the documentary production companies Cynthia Wade Productions, Inc. and Lieutenant Films, Inc., and lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
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