Kate Ryan (filmmaker)
Kate Ryan is an American director and editor known mostly from her 2007 film Point of View: A Dogumentary which was featured on The Dog Whisperer and won a 2007 Student Emmy Award. It was also a regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards. She is currently working on a feature documentary entitled Welcome Nowhere which documents the trials and tribulations of a persecuted community of Romani people living in a settlement of box cars in Bulgaria. "Welcome Nowhere" is narrated by Ethan Hawke., Early life and career Kate Ryan was born in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of California State University, Northridge, where she majored in film, she began making short films and documentaries in 2000. Her 2007 thesis film, Point of View: A Dogumentary, won a Student Emmy Award for Best Documentary, and was a regional finalist for the Student Academy Awards. Other films she has directed and edited include: Miracles: The Chloe Glassborow Story (2009), Miracles: The Per Arne Drangsland Story (2008), which premiered on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Catch the Fire: Fruits of Revival (2009). Her editing work also includes the television shows Hope for Your Home (2008), Restorer Guy (2009) all for TLC (TV