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 (2007 - Sundance Festival Premiere)US Broadcast Premiere: June 4, 2008, 7:30 PM EST on Cinemax (check local listings) Website: www.freeheld.com Winner: Academy Award®: Short Documentary Sundance Film Festival: Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking Seattle Film Festival: Special Jury Prize Boston Independent Film Festival: Audience Award NewFest NYC Film Festival: Best Short Documentary Outfest LA Film Festival: Audience Award Spokane GLBT Film Festival: John Deen Award Spokane GLBT Film Festival: Audience Award Denver Film Society: Social Justice Award Palm Springs Shortfest: Best Documentary Palm Springs Shortfest: Audience Award Connecticut G&L Film Festival: Audience Award Long Island GLBT Film Festival: Audience Award Zinegoak Film Festival: Best Documentary Reeling Film Festival: Audience Award IDA Award: Nomination Best Short Documentary Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel - a veteran New Jersey detective - launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman's bitter fight to provide for the love of her life.
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 (2004 - HBO America Undercover)HBO Premiere: January 2004 Website: www.shelterdogs.org A year in the life of a rural animal shelter, where staff members must make the difficult decisions of which animals will be saved for adoption and which will be euthanized. Winner: "Best of the Fest", Northampton Independent Film Festival 2003 Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Director's View Film Festival 2003 Audience Award, Newport Film Festival 2003. Audience Award, Orinda Film Festival 2004 ALA Library Association Notable Film Award 2004 Review Highlights: "One of the Ten Best Documentaries of 2003" -- The Boston Phoenix "Engrossing" -- TV Guide "Unflinching" - The New York Times "Riveting ... a tight and artful work" - San Francisco Weekly |
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 (1999 - Cinemax Reel Life)National Television Broadcast: June 1999 A personal documentary chronicling the effects of divorce on the filmmaker's family. Winner: Best Documentary Short, Westchester Film Festival, 2000. Review Highlights: "A delight ... full of quirky moments and clever humor ... editing is excellent" -- The Hollywood Reporter "A jewel ... extremely comical" -- Variety, 6/18/99 "Gripping ... remarkable candor ... an intelligent convergence of fairytale, cinema and home movie" -- St. John's Int'l Women's Film Festival 2000 "Funny in all the right ways" -- actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo |
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 (1996 - Fanlight Productions)A twenty-five minute documentary depicting two homeless boys navigating their way through their schools, the Bronx streets and the shelter where they live, as it observes the challenges of single mothers raising sons. Winner: 1996 Silver Apple Award (National Media Educational Network); Best Educational Video (Access Awards); Special Recognition (Main Street Festival; South Bronx Film Festival); Certificate of Merit (Movies on a Shoestring). |
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 (1992)An eight-minute documentary following a peep-show dancer through an evening at work. Festival Highlights: 1992 Mill Valley Film Festival, 1992 California Film Arts Festival, 1996 New York Independent Film & Video Festival. "Honest and enlightening ... a captivating peek into a fascinating persona" -- The Official Guide to the 1992 Mill Valley Film Festival |
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 (1989)Documentary contrasting the Smith College social life of 1939 and 1989. Smith Scholars Thesis. |
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