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Oct 2, 2015 · In 2008, documentary director Cynthia Wade took home an Oscar for Best Documentary Short with her film, Freeheld (2007). The 40-minute documentary followed Hester as she fought for her rights...
Cynthia Wade. Office Manager. Phone: 858-618-1100. Cynthia Wade, administration and a notary public, has been with the firm and its predecessor since 2004. She is a native Californian and has lived in San Diego since 1980. Cynthia graduated from Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science de… Read More. View Shuky's Profile. Shuky Ng.
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Mar 26, 2012 · U.S.A. Wade Law Office, L.L.C. is a firm serving Columbus, OH . View the law firm's profile for reviews, office locations, and contact information.
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- Before It All Began
- The Spark Is Lit
- A Documentary Is Born
- Sundance, Hollywood, and Beyond
- Building Up to Something Bigger
- Assembling The Dream Team
- Staying True to Life
- Making An Impact
- Magnifying A Legacy
- Finding Further Meaning
While it’s only recently coming into the public eye, “Freeheld” (in all its incarnations) bears roots in Cynthia's longtime commitment to filmmaking, starting with her learning the nuts and bolts—everything from shooting to lighting to editing—in a Stanford Master’s program. Following up on her undergraduate love of theater (and her self-taught doc...
Bolstered by this encouragement, Cynthia began scouring articles from all kinds of sources—from the New York Times to local papers—to find somethingin her radius that might be worth investigating. She stumbled upon an online article in a New Jersey paper about veteran Police Lieutenant Laurel Hester in Ocean County, New Jersey, and her legal strugg...
To gather her footage, Cynthia packed her equipment in a Zipcar and traveled at least once a week—and sometimes two or three times a week—from New York to New Jersey, exclusively by Zipcar. As she became closer to Laurel and Stacie, they’d ask if she wanted to spend the night or weekend. She slept on their couch a lot. Cynthia operated with limited...
A year later, Cynthia sent a rough cut into Sundance. She got in. Not only was she invited to premiere it there, but it won Special Jury Prize. Cynthia had believed in the film all along, but this was the beginning of launching it into the world—big time. The next step: prepare the 38-minute masterpiece to be an Oscar contender in the short documen...
The exposure from the Oscar win catapulted Laurel and Stacie’s story into a new dimension. Talks began about turning the short into a fictionalized feature film. Ellen Page—who was nominated for best actress in a leading role for "Juno" at the very same Academy Awards (and—in another sign of coincidence—whose aunt happened to be sitting next to Sta...
The pieces—both finance- and talent-wise—finally fell into place last year, with the casting of Julianne Moore as Laurel. Ellen—who publicly came out in February 2014, while the film was in development—was not only a producer and lead actor, but was instrumental in getting Julianne on board. Steve Carell, who was doing press for “Foxcatcher” in New...
But with mainstream appeal can come, well, mainstream content…and—worse yet—mainstream compromises. Cynthia explains, “There was always this fear, where I was going to hand this over to be fictionalized—and what if it strayed very far from Laurel’s story and the real events?” That’s where the screenwriter—Ron Nyswaner, who had been nominated for an...
Ten years have passed since the “Freeheld” project began, and the original documentary has been shown in more than 100 film festivals all over the country, as well as international festivals—including a screening in Tokyo at a Japanese gay and lesbian festival, which the first openly lesbian city official attended. (Progress that was sadly unmatche...
Now, with the release of the feature film, Cynthia is eager to continue this path of advocacy and acceptance, and—given the dramatically changed social climate (including the historic Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage a mere decade later)—honor and amplify it. “The infant daughter I had right before I started shooting the documentary ...
Just as “Freeheld” was about people before politics, so was Cynthia’s own personal experience with both films. “I would say that ‘Freeheld’ was a game changer in my working life—it helped me grow as a filmmaker, and helped define me and define my brand,” she says. “It solidified that I’m drawn to real people—people who are ripping away shame, risin...
Office Manager. Phone: 858-618-1100. Cynthia Wade, administration and a notary public, has been with the firm and its predecessor since 2004. She is a native Californian and has lived in San Diego since 1980. Cynthia graduated from Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science degree.
- 16466 Bernardo Center Drive, Suite 136, Rancho Bernardo, 92128, CA
- (858) 618-1100
Cynthia Wade, administration and a notary public, has been with the firm and its predecessor since 2004. She is a native Californian and has lived in San Diego since 1980. Cynthia graduated from Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Science de…
CYNTHIA WADE . Cynthia is the director of: Cynthia directs commercials for brands such as Kellogg’s, Dove, and WW, among others. She is writing a feature-length screenplay about the Shakers, the utopians who sustained the longest-lived American experiment of equality.
