Frances Reid (filmmaker)

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Frances Reid (* 1944 or 1945 ) is an American filmmaker. Reid works in directing and film production and as a camerawoman . For her work, which focuses on documentary films , Reid has been nominated and awarded several times for various film awards.

Life

In 1975, Reid founded the film production company Iris Films , which specializes in documentaries, together with Cathy Zheutlin , Joan E. Biren , Elizabeth Stevens and Mary Lee Farmer . In 1977 Reid released her first directorial work, In the Best Interests of the Children . This film is considered to be the first American documentary that deals with lesbians and their children. In 1984 Reid worked as a camerawoman on the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk and on the set met Deborah Hoffmann , who was responsible for the film editing. Reid and Hoffmann have been a couple privately and professionally since the mid-1980s and are openly lesbian. Together they made the award-winning films Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (1995) and, in 2000, Long Night's Journey Into Day , a film about apartheid in South Africa . In 2002, Reid was a judge at the Sundance Film Festival .

Filmography (selection)

As a director
As a camerawoman
As a producer
  • 1994: Straight from the Heart
  • 1995: Skin Deep: Building Diverse Campus Communities
  • 2003: Lost Boys of Sudan
  • 2011: Happy

Nominations and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bonnie Zimmermann (Ed.): Lesbian Histories and cultures ; Garland Publishing Inc., 2000, ISBN 0-8153-3354-4 ; P. 244; here online at books.google, accessed on February 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ Real Life , April 4, 1995 article on Hoffmann and Reid in The Advocate , accessed February 4, 2012.
  3. ↑ Frances Reid on the roninfilms.com.au website, accessed February 4, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Reid, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1944 or 1945