Deborah Hoffmann is an American

documentary A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

director and

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. She edited and along with

Frances Reid Frances Reid (December 9, 1914 – February 3, 2010) was an American dramatic actress. Reid acted on television for nearly all of the second half of the 20th century. Her career continued into the early 2000s. Although she starred in ma ...

co-directed '' Long Night's Journey into Day'' (2000), which won the 2000 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury award for best documentary and was nominated for the

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. She also directed the Academy Award-nominated short film, ''

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter ''Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter'' is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Deborah Hoffmann, with her wife, Frances Reid, as cinematographer. Summary The film is about the struggle with Alzheimer's disease of Doris Hoffmann, mother of ...

'' (1995) and was the editor of ''

The Times of Harvey Milk ''The Times of Harvey Milk'' is a 1984 American documentary film that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, and then on November 1, 1984, at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The film was directed by Rob Epstein ...

'', which won the 1984 Oscar for best documentary.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1984) – editor * '' Ethnic Notions'' (1987) – editor * '' Color Adjustment'' (1992) – editor * ''

'' (1995) – director * '' Long Night's Journey into Day'' (2000) – co-director and editor * '' The Kill Team'' (2013) ''–'' executive producer * ''Unrest'' (2017) – executive producer

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* Living people American documentary film directors American film editors 1947 births American women film directors American women documentary filmmakers American women film editors {{US-film-director-1940s-stub