Dorothy Fadiman
Dorothy Fadiman, born Dorothy east wind ( born June 3, 1939 in Pennsylvania ) is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Life and work
Dorothy Fadiman grew up as the youngest child of Moss and Anna east wind on the Jewish community of Pittsburgh. She has a ten-year older sister and an eight -year-older brother. By 1957, she attended Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh, later the Pennsylvania State University. In 1961 she moved to the Californian city of Menlo Park to study speech therapy at Stanford University. There she met her future husband James Fadiman ( b. 1939 ), who worked on his master's degree in psychology at Stanford. They married in 1965 in Churchill Borough, Pennsylvania. From this marriage two daughters were born.
After a spiritual experience during an LSD intoxication Fadiman began to explore the phenomenon of Inner Light, which plays a role in some religions. In 1974 she met the producer Michael Wiese know who had become aware of them through their research. Fadiman was planning to write a book, but instead was created by Wiese influence her first documentary, Radiance: The Experience of Light.
This was followed by more than twenty films, which often raise human rights and social justice. In them Fadimans personal life experiences reflect. Her award- winning documentary When Abortion What Illegal: Untold Stories, arose in part because they had themselves undergone as a student in 1963 an illegal abortion and was seriously injured. Another impetus for this film were current political developments, which featured the leading judgment Roe v. Wade in question. Fadiman wanted to make the public aware of it, the consequences could have the withdrawal of the legalization of abortion. 1993 her film for an Oscar in the category was nominated Best Short Documentary. In two other documentaries they took up the theme again. In a later series of documentaries Fadiman addressed the problem of AIDS in Ethiopia.
Caused a stir in 2008 Fadimans documentary Stealing America: Vote by Vote, in which she highlights the technical irregularities in elections in the United States. Trigger for the production of the film were her own observations as election judge in the 2004 presidential election in Florida, which were confirmed by their research and surveys of other stakeholders.
Fadiman lives with her husband, author and professor of psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (Palo Alto), in Menlo Park. It owns the film production company Concentric Media and conducts seminars and workshops on the production of documentary films.
Publications
- Dorothy Fadiman, Tony Levelle: Producing with passion: making films that change the world. Michael Wiese, Studio City 2008, ISBN 9,781,932,907,445th