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| Born | (1949-11-10)November 10, 1949 (age 75) Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1977) |
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Linda Feferman (born November 10, 1949) is an American film and television director and producer.
A 1977Guggenheim Fellow and 1978MacDowell Fellow, she has receivedGrammy Award andPrimetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Special Jury Recognition For Youth Comedy award at the 1986Sundance Film Festival as director of the 1986 feature filmSeven Minutes in Heaven.
Linda Feferman was born on November 10, 1949, inBuffalo, New York.[1] She is the daughter of Harriet (née Baker) and Oscar A. Feferman, a businessman who ran women's clothing retail stores.[2] She attendedAmherst Central High School.[3]
After studying at theUniversity of Michigan,University at Buffalo, andNew York University, the last of where she got her BFA in 1971, Feferman began her career directing films such asDirty Books (1971),Linda's Film on Menstruation (1974), andThe Girl with the Incredible Feeling.[1] In 1977, she worked as a visiting professor atBard College.[1] The same year, she was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking.[1] She was also a 1978MacDowell Colony Fellow.[4]
As an intern for theAmerican Film Institute, Feferman was part of the crew of the 1980 filmThe Blues Brothers.[5] In 1986, she directed the feature filmSeven Minutes in Heaven.[6] for which she was also screenwriter.[7] She won the Special Jury Recognition For Youth Comedy award at the 1986Sundance Film Festival for her work on the film,[8] as well as a Grand Jury Prize nomination.[6]
At the43rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1991, Feferman was nominated for thePrimetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming for her directorial work on the seriesThe Astronomers.[9] In 1998, she was the producer of the PBS documentary seriesLife Beyond Earth.[10] In 1996, she helped nineCalifornia Institute of the Arts students produce a music video forJames McMurtry's albumWhere’d You Hide the Body at the invitation of talent manager and friend Mark Spector;[11] she was nominated for theGrammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for her work as a producer and co-director for the video.[12][13]
In the 2000s, Feferman was a director forCloser to Truth and a producer for the BBC documentaryAuschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' (2005).[6][14] In 2017, she directedAn Evening With Piper Laurie, a documentary about the career of actressPiper Laurie, which premiered at the Ojai Film Festival.[15]
Feferman has also taught master classes in film production at theUniversity of New Mexico,USC School of Cinematic Arts, andUCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.[16]
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