KATE LINHARDT
VIDEO EDITOR

Kate Linhardt is an independent documentary filmmaker and freelance editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate about telling stories of peripheral figures, feminist dissidents, and queer elders. For the past 15 years she has worked on a variety of post-production projects, including Emmy-nominated documentary films, commercial web content, film trailers, reality television, promotional videos, and short films. Her work has been featured on many news and TV outlets, including ABC, ESPN, Discovery, PBS, and The New York Times. Most recently she was the editor on MOTHER (2024), a short film which premiered at IFF Boston and was an official selection of the Frameline festival in June 2024. She works regularly with Hearst Media’s streaming service Very Local on their original documentary programming, and last year she served as the lead editor on The Lost Children of Carlisle (2023), which won a Silver Telly award in the category of Public Interest & Awareness. She has collaborated on a number of other documentary film projects including the Emmy-nominated Keepers of the Game (2016), Ai-Weiwei: Yours Truly (2019), Prognosis: Notes on Living (2021), and Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest (2022).

In addition to longer form documentary work, Kate specializes in short form video content, with a focus on environmental and social justice issues. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in American Culture and Film. In her free time she enjoys playing the piano and making electronic music.