{"id":175681,"date":"2023-01-03T05:36:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/catherine-cyran-dead-was-prince-me-series-director-59\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T05:36:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T05:36:04","slug":"catherine-cyran-dead-was-prince-me-series-director-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/catherine-cyran-dead-was-prince-me-series-director-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Cyran Dead: Was ‘Prince & Me’ Series Director 59"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tCatherine Cyran, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, producer and writer who began her career working under Roger Corman, died Dec. 24, 2022 in Vancouver, BC following a battle with cancer. She was 59 years old. <\/p>\n

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\tBefore emerging as director in the 1990s, Cyran established herself as a screenwriter, with credits on films such as 1990’s \u201cSlumber Party Massacre III\u201d and \u201cA Cry in the Wild,\u201d the 1990 adaptation of Gary Paulsen’s novel \u201cHatchet.\u201d She made her feature film directorial debut with the 1993 sequel \u201cWhite Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II,\u201d for which she earned an Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n

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\tBorn in Brooklyn, NY, Cyran became the first person in her family to attend college, graduating from Harvard in 1985. She then spent two years in London, working for the Royal Shakespeare Company.<\/p>\n

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\tCyran found her footing in the entertainment industry working as an executive assistant under the seminal, prolific producer and director Roger Corman, whose tutelage touched other filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme and Peter Bogdonavich. Under Corman, Cyran wrote and produced titles such as \u201cDead Space,\u201d starring Bryan Cranston; \u201cUncaged,\u201d starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan; \u201cFire on the Amazon,\u201d starring Sandra Bullock and \u201cKiss Me a Killer,\u201d which earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Cyran also served as a ghost writer behind \u201cFrankenstein Unbound,\u201d Corman’s final feature as a director. <\/p>\n

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\tAfter working with Corman, Cyran began a fruitful relationship with Fox Family Television Studios, writing and directing the thrillers \u201cDangerous Waters\u201d and \u201cHostile Intensions.\u201d She then took to helming television movies at ABC Family, directing Christmas films such as \u201cChristmas Do-Over,\u201d \u201cHomecoming for the Holidays,\u201d \u201cChristmas Duet\u201d and \u201cCross Country Christmas.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tCyran also developed the martial arts series \u201cBloodfist\u201d and served as a writer on Universal productions such as \u201cWerewolf\u201d and \u201cThe Beast Among Us.\u201d Other notable directorial credits include three of the four entries in \u201cThe Prince & Me\u201d series, \u201cVictoria Gotti: My Father’s Daughter\u201d and \u201cTrue Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tCyran published one novel, \u201cThe Island of the Last Great Auk.\u201d Additionally, each screenplay, titled \u201cThe Last Story,\u201d received the Canadian International Film Festival Award for excellence in writing. Every final movie, \u201cOur Italian Christmas Memories\u201d starring Beau Bridges, aired on Hallmark only a few weeks before her death.<\/p>\n

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\tLast year, Cyran decided to take the SAT test \u201cjust for fun.\u201d At the age of 58, she score a perfect score of 1600. <\/p>\n

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\tCyran was a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of Canada and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. As she put it, she strove \u201cto tell good stories to broad audiences\u201d through her work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n