{"id":175479,"date":"2023-01-03T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/daytime-emmy-nominated-filmmaker-was-59-deadline\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T00:16:12","slug":"daytime-emmy-nominated-filmmaker-was-59-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/daytime-emmy-nominated-filmmaker-was-59-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytime Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker Was 59 \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tCatherine Cyran, the Daytime Emmy-nominated director of more than 20 features, died on Christmas Eve, according to multiple Facebook posts from those close to her. While a cause of death has not yet been reported, she was 59.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cToday we lost a beautiful soul, Catherine Cyran..This Chriatmas Eve You slipped through my fingers peacefully,\u201d wrote Gary B Bigger Jr. on December 24. \u201cMy mentor & director who truly loved me\u2026I never thought angels existed till now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe Brooklyn-born Cyran was a graduate of both Harvard and Stanford Business School who also regularly worked as a writer and producer, over the course of her more than 30-year career. Her introduction to the world of filmmaking came as the writer-producer for assorted low-budget films from Roger Corman \u2014 first among them, such titles as A Cry in the Wild<\/em>, Slumber Party Massacre III<\/em> and Bloodfist II<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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\tCyran’s breakthrough as a director came in 1993 with White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II<\/em> \u2014 a family adventure pic, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy, in the category of Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Special. Additional directing credits for the multi-hyphenate included the river-rafting pic Dangerous Waters<\/em>; the Showtime horror sawbones<\/em>; the actioner True Heart <\/em>with Kirsten Dunst; three of four installations in the Prince & Me<\/em> series of rom-coms; and the holiday comedy Christmas Do-Over<\/em> with Jay Mohr, to name just a few. Cyran’s final film was one of many holiday-themed titles she made for TV over the years \u2014 a rom-com titled Our Italian Christmas Memories<\/em>with three-time Emmy winner Beau Bridges, which bowed on Hallmark in November.<\/p>\n

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\tA member of the Writers Guild of America, as well as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Directors Guild of Canada, Cyran also notably penned a YA novel titled Island of the Last Great Auk<\/em>which was based on her own award-winning screenplay, The Last Story<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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\tMemorial plans have not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n