Deborah Hoffmann

Directing

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Deborah Hoffmann received an Academy Award nomination in 1995 for her documentary, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter and again for Long Night's Journey into Day in 2000. She is widely acclaimed as editor of such classic documentaries as the Oscar winning The Times of Harvey Milk, Ethnic Notions, and Mullholland's Dream. She has received two National Emmys, a Peabody, a DuPont Columbia Award, and a Rockefeller Fellowship. Deborah has been a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism since 2000. She has served on juries for the Sundance, San Francisco and Mill Valley Film Festivals and on the Independent Spirit Awards, and Gotham Awards. She is a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Known for

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Credits

The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Editor
Color Adjustment (1992)
Editor
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature (1997)
Editor
Ethnic Notions (1986)
Editor
Skin Deep (1995)
Editor
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle (1999)
Editor
Straight from the Heart (1994)
Editor
Squatters: The Other Philadelphia Story (1984)
Editor
The Faces of Aids (1993)
Editor
Free Zone: Democracy Meets the Nuclear Threat (—)
Editor