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Irving Saraf

American film director, film producer, cinematographer and film editor · United States · On the map · Directors · Lived 1932 to 2012 · aged 80

Irving Saraf was a Polish-born American film producer, film editor, film director and academic. Saraf won an Oscar for producing the 1991 documentary film, In the Shadow of the Stars. In total, Saraf had more than one hundred fifty film and television production credits.

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2012Died26 December 20122006The Sermons of Sister Jane: Believing the UnbelievableFilm, Director1998Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast CancerFilm, Director1992Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature FilmAward1991In the Shadow of the StarsFilm, Director1983The Angel That Stands By MeFilm, Director, ProducerThe Angel that Stands by Me: Minnie Evans' PaintingsFilm, 1983DirectorThe Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain ThunderFilm, 1983Director1982Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa PrisbreyFilm, DirectorHundred and Two Mature: The Art of Harry LiebermanFilm, 1982Director1981Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American PoetsFilm, Director1977Possum Trot: The Life and Work of Calvin Black, 1903-1972Film, Director1971FidelFilm, Director1968From Protest to ResistanceFilm, Director1966Losing Just the SameFilm, Director1932Born

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Filmography 13

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Awards

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film1992

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His resume included Poland, Communism's New Look, a 1965 television film; USA Poetry: Twelve Films About Modern Poets in 1966; and the 2009 documentary Empress Hotel following the residents of a low-income hotel in Tenderloin, San Francisco.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1932 to 2012 · aged 80

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