Kate Novack

Kate Novack is an Emmy-nominated producer and director of documentaries. Her short film Hysterical Girl (New York Times Op Docs, Grasshopper Film), which she wrote and directed, was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing and for Best Short by the International Documentary Association. In 2018, she directed the Gospel According to Andre, about the fashion editor Andre Leon Talley. The movie was named one of the top ten Queer films of the year by Indiewire and was nominated for best LGBTQ documentary of the year by the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. Kate was a producer and writer on Page One: Inside the New York Times, which premiered at Sundance in 2011, and went on to be nominated for two News & Documentary Emmy Awards and a Critics Choice Award. Kate has worked as a story consultant on several films, including CNN's Ivory Tower (2014, co-producer), about the escalating cost of higher education. Prior to making films, she was an arts and media reporter at Time Magazine.