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Deborah Shaffer
Deborah Shaffer has a 50-year career as a documentary filmmaker. She began making films in 1970s as a member of the Newsreel Collective, where she collaborated on the short film M…
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Deborah Shaffer has a 50-year career as a documentary filmmaker. She began making films in 1970s as a member of the Newsreel Collective, where she collaborated on the short film Make-Out. In 1972 she co-directed and co-produced the short How About You?, and in 1976 Chris and Bernie. Shaffer co-produced and co-directed her first feature documentary, The Wobblies, an oral and archival history of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1979, which premiered at the New York Film Festival and was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2021.
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2019
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Movie Director
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2003
Thunder in Guyana
Movie Executive Producer
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2001
Enemies of War
Movie Executive Producer
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1993
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Movie Editor
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1992
Cocolos y Rockeros
Movie Editor
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1989
Dance of Hope
Movie Director
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1988
Point of View
TV show Director
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1987
Fire from the Mountain
Movie Director
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1985
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
Movie Director
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1984
Tales from the Darkside
TV show Editor
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1984
Nicaragua: Report from the Front
Movie Director
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1981
El Salvador: Another Vietnam
Movie Editor
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1980
El Salvador: The People Will Win
Movie Editor
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1979
The Wobblies
Movie Director
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1977
Chuquiago
Movie Editor
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1977
Wildcat
Movie Director
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1975
Chris and Bernie
Movie Director
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1970
Make Out
Movie Writer
