Biography
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.
Filmography
all 18
Movies 16
Director 7
Producer 4
TV Shows 2
Writer 1
Director

To Be Heard (2011)
Movie
Producer

Ladies First (2004)
Movie
Executive Producer

Thunder in Guyana (2003)
Movie
Executive Producer

Enemies of War (2001)
Movie
Director

Dance of Hope (1989)
Movie
Director

POV (1988)
TV
Director / Producer

The Wobblies (1979)
Movie
Editor

Chuquiago (1977)
Movie
Director / Editor / Sound

Chris and Bernie (1975)
Movie
Writer

Make Out (1970)
Movie
Information
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GenderFemale
CitizenshipsUnited States
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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