Cynthia Kane Producer (Disappointment Valley: A Modern Day Western)

Cynthia Kane co-created Sundance Channel’s DOCday and brought Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet’s documentary series, The Staircase (2006-Peabody-Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards) to U.S. television. At ITVS, she shepherded 150+ international and U.S. co-productions for public media. At Al Jazeera America, she commissioned documentaries and series (Albert Maysles’ final work, In Transit and duPont Award-winning series, Kartemquin Films’ Hard Earned). Recent work includes Raj Patel and Zak Piper’s The Ants and the Grasshopper (2021), Carl Gierstorfer and Antje Boehmert’s The River Between Us (2021), NC Heikin’s Life & Life (2021), Maria Finitzo’s The Dilemma of Desire (2020-Showtime), Kim A Snyder, Maria Cuomo Cole, Lori Cheatle’s Us Kids (2020), and Maia Lekow and Chris King’s The Letter (2019).