Kate Novack

Biography

Kate Novack is an Emmy-nominated writer, director and producer of documentary films. Her film Hysterical Girl (The New York Times Op-Docs) revisits the only major case history that Sigmund Freud published of a female patient and considers the corrosive legacy of his theory of hysteria more than 100 years later. The film was shortlisted for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. New Yorker critic Richard Brody described it as "extraordinary...strikes at the very foundations of the field of psychology, and the historical failure to believe victims which has not yet been righted." Kate's feature The Gospel According to Andre (Magnolia Pictures), about the legendary fashion editor Andre Leon Talley, was named one of the top ten Queer films of the year by Indiewire and nominated for best LGBTQ documentary of the year by the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. A former print journalist, Kate wrote and produced Page One: Inside the New York Times (Magnolia Pictures, Participant Media), which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for two News & Documentary Emmys and a Critics Choice Award. Most recently, she wrote and produced The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong, featuring the bestselling Soviet-Jewish novelist Gary Shteyngart. Over the past 20 years, Kate has worked in a producing or story role on several films, including A Table in Heaven (HBO, History) and the Emmy-nominated Ivory Tower (CNN Films).