Kahane is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer, director, and showrunner. She is known for her focus on emotional, intimate, powerful storytelling and has made films on subjects as wide-ranging as mental health, civility’s role in democracy, life with autism, and ice sculpting. Select credits include the Academy Award-nominated Joe’s Violin, The Antidote, The Me You Can’t See, the New Yorker Presents, and Making Dazed. Kahane’s work has premiered at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, HotDocs, DocNYC, and IDFA and can be seen on PBS, HBO, AppleTV+, and Amazon. Kahane started out answering phones at the renowned Maysles Films and was a longtime co-executive producer of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart along the way.