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Writer-producer-director Donna Kanter is owner of the Kanter Company, Inc. She has launched fourteen reality series, directed the pilot Rescue 911 (CBS), created the series FBI: The Untold Stories (ABC), Inside The Yellow Line (Court TV), and Cold Case Cops (Discovery). She just wrote and directed F.L.I.P. Mysteries for WE tv, about Internet private eyes, and the documentary LUNCH, featuring seven comedy writers. Other credits include Pope John Paul II’s Vatican, Inside The White House, four seasons of Badge of Courage (Court TV), and Save Our Streets and Payback (NBC). Kanter is executive producer-writer of three made-for-television movies: Aftermath (CBS), The Flood and The Last Victim (NBC). Raised in an atmosphere of comedy writers, Kanter gravitated to labor and investigative reporting at KING-TV/Seattle, then Newsweek, becoming ABC foreign editor and senior producer for David Brinkley. A graduate of UC Berkeley, she earned an M.A. in romance languages from the University of Florence, with doctoral studies on WWII Italy at Yale. A member of the DGA Workshop, she is in postproduction on her short film, Friends for Life, based on the Paulist Press 2008 book she edited about feature stillman Louis Goldman and the priests who saved his life during WWII. A two-time Emmy recipient and honoree of the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, Kanter is a member of the WGA and DGA.
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