Kate Stilley Steiner

Kate Stilley Steiner is a filmmaker, editor, and producer. She co-founded Citizen Film, a San Francisco-based not-for-profit production company which "creates films and online media that foster active engagement in cultural and civic life." Stilley’s work has been broadcast on PBS, ABC, The Learning Channel, and Fox.

Her past producing and editing credits include the feature-length documentaries Throwing Curves, about 103-year-old industrial designer Eva Zeisel, Wired For What? for PBS, Thinking Like A Watershed; and The Mystery of the Last Tsar for The Learning Channel.

Stilley's other editing credits include work on the award-winning documentaries: The Story Of Mothers and Daughters for ABC Television; Fox Television's Emmy Award-winning Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story Of The American Mob; and the Academy Award nominated Freedom On My Mind.

From 1999 through 2021, Stilley worked on a number of collaborations with Oscar-winning director Debra Chasnoff and her production company GroundSpark. In 1999, she edited Wired For What? as part of the PBS series Digital Divide which examines elementary schools grappling with computerization. In 2000, Stilley edited That’s a Family!, which features children living in diverse family structures in the United States. In 2004, Stilley produced and edited One Wedding and a Revolution, a short film documenting the first legal marriage of a same-sex couple in California between lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. In the same year, Stilley produced and edited Let’s Get Real, which is used in classrooms across the United States to broach multicultural education and prevent bullying. In 2007, she produced and edited It’s Still Elementary, sequel to the original It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues In School. In 2021, Stilley produced and co-directed Prognosis – Notes on Living, her final collaboration with director Debra Chasnoff as the pair documented Chasnoff’s journey with stage-4 metastatic breast cancer.