Deborah Dickson

Director/Producer Deborah Dickson, a three-time Academy Award nominee, is an independent documentary filmmaker who loves the mix of memory and cinéma vérité. In 1988, her film Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller (which she produced, directed and edited) premiered at both Sundance and Berlin, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1997, her film Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (co-directed with Anne Belle) premiered at the New York Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. A graduate of Barnard College/Columbia University and New York University Film School, Dickson is also known for her long collaboration with Susan Froemke and Maysles Films. Their most recent effort, Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, won top honors at Sundance, 2001, and was recently nominated for an Oscar, as well as an Independent Spirit Award. Their 1992 film, Abortion: Desperate Choices, won Emmy, DuPont and Peabody Awards. In addition, Dickson also collaborated with Maysles Films on Ozawa; Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic; Christo in Paris; Accent on the Off-Beat; and Letting Go: A Hospice Journey. Dickson also produced and directed (with Roger Weisberg) Sex, Teens and Public Schools for PBS, and completed The Art of Influence, a documentary on fourteen artists, for the Bravo Network in 1999. More recently, Dickson directedThe Education of Gore Vidal for the award-winning PBS series, American Masters.