Kathryn Dietz has been FC’s Executive Director since June 2011, after 8 years on the Board and 12 years as an independent filmmaker-member. For 23 years, she co-owned and managed a NY based production company, Ambrica Productions, through which she produced or co-produced eight primetime documentaries for PBS. They include: Young & Restless in China (Frontline, 2008), China in the Red (Frontline, 2003) and 6-hour series, CHINA: A Century of Revolution (1989-1997). She also produced Mary Pickford (American Experience, 2005) and Eleanor Roosevelt (American Experience, 2000), as well as Time of Fear (2005), about Japanese-American incarceration in Arkansas during World War II. These films have won numerous awards including three CINE Golden Eagles, two Gold Cameras, two Hugo Awards, a Bronze Telly, three Chris Awards, and several Silver and Bronze Apples.

She left Ambrica in 2009 in order to pursue local collaborations with Boston-area media makers. Her latest film, Big Little Town: The Story of Needham, will soon be released. She is collaborating with FC member Nancy Porter on a series of short films for the New England Journal of Medicine. She is also executive producer of Nassar : An Egyptian Story, a new film in development by FC founder Michal Goldman.

As FC’s newest Executive Director, Kathryn loves to foster collaborations among talented people. She enjoys strategic and educational planning, and is now at work on the Making Media Now conference, to be held in spring 2012.