Catherine Cyran, an Emmy-nominated director, producer and author, died on Dec. 24. She was 59.   

The filmmaker, identified for 3 installments of the Prince & Me franchise, died in Vancouver, B.C., following a battle with most cancers, a rep confirmed to The truestarz.

Earlier than starting her profession in movie, the Brooklyn native graduated from Harvard and moved to London for the Royal Shakespeare Firm as a administration marketing consultant. As soon as she returned to the USA, she labored as a political problem advisor for some campaigns in Massachusetts and in addition went to Stanford Enterprise College for a bit. 

Ultimately, Cyran determined to maneuver her life to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking. She began by working beneath prolific filmmaker Roger Corman, writing and producing low-budget motion pictures, together with A Cry within the Wild, Slumber Get together Bloodbath III and Bloodfist II. 

In 1993, she wrote and directed her first function movie, White Wolves: A Cry within the Wild II, which bought her an Emmy nomination. Her different credit embody Dance Waters, True Coronary heart, Sawbones, Christmas Do-Over and a number of other vacation motion pictures for Hallmark, corresponding to Our Italian Christmas Reminiscences, which premiered in November 2022. Cyran additionally wrote Honey 3: Dare to Dance and co-wrote Werewolf: The Beast Amongst Us. 

When she wasn’t directing and producing, Cyran wrote the novel, Island of the Final Nice Auok, which was tailored from her screenplay, The Final Story. In 2014, her screenplay gained the Canadian Worldwide Movie Competition award for excellence in writing. 

Cyran was a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America, in addition to the Administrators Guild of Canada and the Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences. 

She is survived by her brother, Christopher Cyran, and her longtime associate, director Louis Morneau.