Deborah Shaffer
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.
Known for
Directing9
movieDance of Hope
1989
Director
tvPoint of View
1988
Director
movieFire from the Mountain
1987
Director
movieThe Wobblies
1979
Director
movieWildcat
1977
Director
movieChris and Bernie
1975
Director
Editing8
movieChuquiago
1977
Editor
Production7
Thunder in Guyana
2003
Executive Producer
Enemies of War
2001
Executive Producer
movieDance of Hope
1989
Producer
movieFire from the Mountain
1987
Producer
movieThe Wobblies
1979
Producer
Sound1
Writing1
movieMake Out
1970
Writer