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When Judy Chicago, a trailblazing feminist artist once dismissed by the establishment, steps into the limelight at 80-something, her iconic six decade fight against women’s erasure from the art world takes on new significance.
Director Kate Amend was selected as the 2022 Kroll Artist, which includes an additional grant award to the team.
Kate Amend - Director
Kate Amend has edited two Academy Award-winning documentaries, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Long Way Home. She’s the recipient of the American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) Editors Career Achievement Award, IDA’s inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing, American Cinema Editors’ Eddie award for Into the Arms of Strangers, and an Emmy nomination for The Case Against 8. Kate served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has been an advisor at the Sundance Institute Documentary Editing and Storytelling Lab since June 2004. She is on the Cinema faculty at USC and in May 2016 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. Other credits include Beah: A Black Woman Speaks for HBO, The Keepers, a Netflix series, Feminists What Were They Thinking? (also on Netflix), Foster for HBO, and Visible: Out On Television, a series for Apple +, and Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time, which received a Best Editing award at the 2020 Beverly Hills Film Festival.
Tim Marrinan - Director
Tim Marrinan directed and produced the critically acclaimed feature documentary Burden, which explored the life and work of seminal artist Chris Burden. Made over the final years of Burden’s life, the film traced his evolution from young boundary-pushing artist to elder statesman of the Los Angeles art scene. Burden premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film was released theatrically in the U.S. by Magnolia Pictures and is available internationally on Netflix. Additionally he has collaborated on numerous short films with artists including Bruce Nauman, Larry Bell, Amalia Pica, and many others.
Lisa Remington - Producer
An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Lisa Remington has produced over two dozen documentaries including the upcoming short The Only Girl in the Orchestra (DOCNYC 2023), Nathaniel Kahn’s art world exploration The Price of Everything (Sundance 2018), Johanna Demetrakas’ Netflix Original Feminists: What Were They Thinking?, Mark Jonathan Harris’ look at the Los Angeles foster care system, Foster (AFI 2018) and Laura Gabbert’s examination of the US food system, Food & Country (Sundance 2023). Lisa co-produced Nathaniel Kahn’s Hunt for Planet B (SxSW 2022), Harry & Meghan (1 episode 2022), Sam Feder’s Disclosure (Sundance 2020), Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee’s Cesar’s Last Fast (Sundance 2014), Lucy Walker’s Countdown to Zero (Sundance 2010). Lisa has consulted on numerous other documentaries, has mentored for Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Program and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.