Cynthia Kane
Program Manager, ITVS International (U.S.A.)

Kane serves as Program Manager for ITVS International, which facilitates an exchange of compelling documentaries between the United States and other nations and promotes programming that transcends stereotypes and headline news to provide international television audiences with new insight into the cultures and people that comprise our global community. We work with independent producers to create and present documentaries taking creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on public or commercial television. ITVS International offers an annual open submission process- International Call  - for independent producers from countries outside the U.S. to apply for production and post-production funding.

Kane began her career as an actress and has appeared in film, theatre and television in New York, Los Angeles and regionally in the U.S.She joined Sundance Channel programming team in 1996 where she worked in Acquisitions and as a Documentary Programmer.  During her tenure, Kane championed the celebrated series, The Staircase, as well as the Emmy-award winning documentary, In Rwanda We Say, the Family That Does Not Speak Dies….  Instrumental in the creation of DOCday, she also programmed world cinema and produced on-air specials such as In Short: Witness, Arte Latino, NY, NY, A Taste of Iran and Not Every Picture Tells a Story: Classic & Contemporary Work from the American Underground.  
She left Sundance Channel in 2005 but continued as a consultant; in addition Kane worked in development on several documentary projects: To Be Heard, Ice People (also Associate Producer), Who’s Afraid of Lynne Stewart?, By Bread Alone:  In the Company of Food Heroes and Leiber-Stoller: The Longest Running Argument in Show Business. 
Her other clients included Cactus Three, LINK TV and iThentic: Made-for-Mobile.  She taught in a New York City after-school program, College Now, holding both writing workshops and documentary screenings for her students to generate discussion about current affairs.

www.itvs.org/producers/international
email: cynthia_kane@itvs.org