Deborah Hoffmann

For the past 19 years Deborah has worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as a
film and video editor, editing numerous internationally acclaimed
documentaries on a wide range of sensitive and challenging topics. For
editing The Times of Harvey Milk she received a National Emmy and the film
received an Academy Award. Marlon Riggs' video Color Adjustment, which she
edited, received a Peabody and an International Documentary Association
Award. She also edited Marlon Riggs' Ethnic Notions and the Frontline program
Men Who Molest, which both received National Emmys, Straight From the Heart
which was an Academy Award nominee, and was an editor of Common Threads:
Stories From the Quilt another Academy Award winner.

In 1986 Deborah's life changed when her mother began showing signs of
Alzheimer's Disease and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to be near her
daughter. As Deborah struggled to cope with her mother's changes she decided
to chronicle her caregiving experiences. The resulting film, Complaints of a
Dutiful Daughter, has received over 30 international awards, including an
Academy Award nomination, an Emmy Award, a Peabody, and a duPont-Columbia
Award. Complaints... aired nationally on PBS in June 1995, and received rave
reviews from virtually every major paper in the country.

Deborah has lectured extensively about film, and has served on juries for
numerous film festivals including Sundance. She has also presented key note
addresses at many medical and women's conferences about her experiences with
Alzheimer's Disease; the Mayo Clinic, the Rush Alzheimer's Center, and the
Alzheimer's Association being just a few.

With her partner Frances Reid, Deborah directed Long Night's Journey into
Day; South Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation. This feature
documentary won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance and received an Oscar
nomination as well at 20 other international awards. (09/20/02)

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
A film by Deborah Hoffmann, 1994, 44 min., Color
With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity, COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's Disease a...