Kathryn Dietz has been a filmmaker-member of FC since 1998, and has served on the Board of Directors since 2000. She was a founder and owner of Ambrica Productions, a NY-based production company, for the last 22 years, and with co-owner Sue Williams she produced or co-produced eight films for national broadcast on PBS.

Five of these films were about modern China, including: Young & Restless in China (Frontline, 2008), China in the Red (Frontline, 2003) and China: A Century of Revolution (1989-1997). Other films include biographies of Mary Pickford (American Experience, 2005) and Eleanor Roosevelt (American Experience, 2000), and Time of Fear (2005), about Japanese-American incarceration in Arkansas during WWII. She also created a Teachers’ Guide and a Chinese-language version of the CHINA series.

She left Ambrica at the end of 2009 in order to pursue more local models of collaboration. She is currently developing a film with FC founder Michal Goldman called Divided We Stand (w.t.), about the murder of Dr. George Tiller and the religious and political polarization that has poisoned our civil discourse. She is also developing new projects with other FC filmmakers.