Deborah Shaffer
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.
Crew
TV
Tales from the Darkside
Editor
1984
Movie
Chuquiago
Editor
1977
Movie
Stephen King's Golden Tales
Editor
1993
TV
POV
Director
1988
Movie
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
Director
1985
Movie
The Wobblies
Director
1979
Thunder in Guyana
Executive Producer
2003
Movie
El Salvador: Another Vietnam
Editor
1981
Movie
Cocolos y Rockeros
Editor
1992
Movie
El Salvador: The People Will Win
Editor
1980
Movie
Chris and Bernie
Director
1975
Movie
Fire from the Mountain
Director
1987