Kahane Cooperman

Kahane Cooperman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and television producer, director and showrunner. Her documentary short, Joe’s Violin, was nominated for a 2017 Academy Award. Joe’s Violin had its American broadcast premiere on the PBS series, POV in July 2017 and can be seen online at NewYorker.com. Most recently, she was the executive producer of seven short documentaries about autism, directing two of them, for Jon Stewart’s Night of Too Many Stars on HBO. She was also recently the showrunner, executive producer, and a director of the 4-hour non-fiction series Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders with Joe Berlinger and Radical Media. The series had its broadcast premiere on SundanceTV in November 2017. Prior, she was executive producer and showrunner of The New Yorker Presents, a series with Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions for Amazon Studios. From 1996-2015, she had an integral role on the acclaimed television program, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she was originally hired as a field producer in 1996 and rose through the ranks to become Co-Executive Producer from 2005-2015. For her work at The Daily Show, she received eleven Primetime Emmy awards and three Peabody awards. Additionally, Kahane was honored in 2017 by Variety Magazine as a Woman of Impact.

Kahane began her documentary career at Maysles Films in NYC. She directed and produced several documentaries prior to Joe’s Violin including Cool Water, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Making ’Dazed’ about Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, which was broadcast on AMC and acquired by the Criterion Collection. Kahane also produced the feature doc Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, directed by Nick Broomfield. She has an MFA in Film from Columbia University.