Cynthia Wades 2008 documentary Freeheld won a 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and 13 other awards She was a lead producer on the 2015 fictionalized adaptation of Freeheld starring Julianne Moore Ellen Page Steve Carell and Michael Shannon Wades 2013 HBO documentary Mondays at Racine was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013 She is the director of the documentaries Grist for the Mill 1999 HBO Shelter Dogs 2004 HBO Born Sweet 2009 Living the Legacy 2009 Sundance Channel and Generation Startup 2016 Netflix Grit 2019 PBS and producer of The Gnomist 2015 CNN She holds a BA from Smith College and an MA in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University Wade has won more than 50 film awards worldwide
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