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Deborah Shaffer

Editor, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
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.

Known For

  • The Wobblies
  • Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
  • Very Semi-Serious
  • Chris and Bernie
  • art21
  • To Be Heard
  • P.O.V.
  • Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack

Deborah Shaffer Filmography

2019
2015
Very Semi-Serious · as Executive Producer
2010
2002
Wide Angle (TV Series)
1999
Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1979

1986
The 58th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner

1976
Chris and Bernie · as Sound

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