Lynne Littman

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Lynne Littman (born June 26, 1941 in New York City ) is an American film director and producer . Your Documentary - Short Number Our Days was a Oscar award.

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Lynne Littman first attended The High School of Music and Art in New York. From 1960 to 1961 she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1962 she received a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College . Her professional career began as a secretary for the New York TV station WNET . She then worked for National Educational Television as a production assistant and in research, particularly for the NET Journal series . She also researched for CBS News journalist Jay McMullen and assisted Agnès Varda on the production of Lions Love . In 1968 she became a production assistant at David Wolper Films in Los Angeles . The following year she first directed a series on drugs produced by the UCLA Media Center for the NIMH .

From 1971 to 1977 Littman worked as a director and producer for the Californian broadcaster KCET Community TV, for which she shot documentaries and news items, among other things. Her work at KCET has earned her several awards, including four Los Angeles Emmy Awards. Another KCET production was Littman's Number Our Days , which won an Oscar in 1977 for Best Documentary Short . It is about a community of elderly Jews in Venice , a district of Los Angeles .

In 1977 Littman married director Taylor Hackford , from whom she later divorced. She had a son she raised alone and worked as an executive producer for ABC for a year after he was born .

In 1983 Littmann first directed a feature film with The Last Testament . Documentaries and television films followed. In 1999 she filmed the autobiographical book of the same name by Sadie and Bessie Delany under the title Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years .

Filmography

  • 1973: In the Matter of Kenneth (1973)
  • 1976: Number Our Days (1976)
  • 1980: Once a Daughter (1980)
  • 1983: The Last Testament ( Testament )
  • 1985: In Her Own Time (1985)
  • 1993: Oscar's Tribute to Women in Movies (1993) (TV)
  • 1996: Cagney & Lacey : And Nothing But The Truth ( Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions )
  • 1998: Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples
  • 1999: Welcome to Freak City ( Freak City )
  • 1999: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
  • 2003: Testament at 20

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lynne Littman ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. filmdirectorssite.com, accessed January 26, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmdirectorssite.com
  2. ^ Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford marriage.about.com, accessed January 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Director Lynne Littman testamentmovie.wordpress.com, accessed January 26, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Littman, Lynne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City