Deborah Shaffer
Known for: Directing
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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The Wobblies
Director
Fire from the Mountain
Director
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
Director
Dance of Hope
Director
Enemies of War
Executive Producer
Cocolos y Rockeros
Editor
El Salvador: The People Will Win
Editor
Chris and Bernie
Director
Make Out
Writer
Thunder in Guyana
Executive Producer
El Salvador: Another Vietnam
Editor
Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Director
Chuquiago
Editor
Wildcat
Director
Nicaragua: Report from the Front
Director
POV
Director
Tales from the Darkside
Editor