Lynne Littman

Lynne Littman (born 26 June 1941 in New York City ) is an American film director and producer. Your documentary short film Number Our Days was awarded an Oscar.

Life and work

Lynne Littman first attended The High School of Music and Art in New York. From 1960 to 1961 she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1962, she earned a Bachelor of Arts at Sarah Lawrence College. Her professional career began as a secretary at the New York TV station WNET. Afterwards she worked for National Educational Television as a production assistant and in the research, especially for the series NET Journal. They also researched for CBS News journalist Jay McMullen and assisted Agnès Varda in the production of Lions Love. She was a production assistant on David Wolper film in Los Angeles in 1968. The following year she directed her first, at a produced by the UCLA Media Center for the NIMH series about drugs.

From 1971 to 1977 Littman worked as a director and Produzention at the California station KCET Community TV, for she turned, among other documentaries and news posts. Your work at KCET earned her several awards, which included four Los Angeles Emmy Awards. A KCET production was also Litt 's film Number Our Days, which was in 1977 awarded an Oscar for Best Short Documentary. It is about a community of elderly Jews in Venice, a district of Los Angeles.

Littman 1977 married the director Taylor Hackford, of which she divorced later. They had a son, whom she reared alone, and worked for a year after his birth as Executive Producer for ABC.

In 1983, Littmann with The Last Testament for the first time a feature film director. This was followed by documentaries and television films. So they filmed among others in 1999 under the title Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters ' First 100 Years of the same autobiographical book by Sadie and Bessie Delany.

Filmography

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