Linda Feferman

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| birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S.

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| awards = Guggenheim Fellow (1977)

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Linda Feferman (born November 10, 1949) is an American film and television director and producer.

A 1977 Guggenheim Fellow and 1978 MacDowell Fellow, she has received Grammy Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Special Jury Recognition For Youth Comedy award at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival as director of the 1986 feature film Seven Minutes in Heaven.

Life and career

Linda Feferman was born on November 10, 1949, in Buffalo, New York. She is the daughter of Harriet ({{nee}} Baker) and Oscar A. Feferman, a businessman who ran women's clothing retail stores.{{Cite web |title=Oscar Feferman Obituary (2005) - Sarasota, FL - Herald Tribune |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/heraldtribune/name/oscar-feferman-obituary?id=50419467 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Legacy.com}} She attended Amherst Central High School.{{Cite news |date=1967-05-02 |title=2000 to Attend Press Day At St. Bona Thursday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/870190730/ |work=The Buffalo News |pages=31}}

After studying at the University of Michigan, University at Buffalo, and New York University, the last of where she got her BFA in 1971, Feferman began her career directing films such as Dirty Books (1971), Linda's Film on Menstruation (1974), and The Girl with the Incredible Feeling. In 1977, she worked as a visiting professor at Bard College. The same year, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zgkAQAAIAAJ |title=Reports of the President and the Treasurer |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=1977 |pages=29 |access-date=2024-08-06}} She was also a 1978 MacDowell Colony Fellow.{{Cite web |title=Linda Feferman - Artist |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/linda-feferman |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=MacDowell |language=en}}

As an intern for the American Film Institute, Feferman was part of the crew of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers.{{Cite web |title=Linda Feferman |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/250532-Linda-Feferman |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=American Film Institute |language=en}} In 1986, she directed the feature film Seven Minutes in Heaven.{{Cite web |title=Linda Feferman |url=https://www.dga.org/Craft/VisualHistory/Interviewers/Feferman.aspx |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=DGA |language=en}} for which she was also screenwriter.{{Cite web |last=Rife |first=Katie |title=Girl Picture movie review & film summary (2022) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/girl-picture-movie-review-2022 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Roger Ebert |language=en}} She won the Special Jury Recognition For Youth Comedy award at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival for her work on the film,{{Cite web |title=1986 Sundance Film Festival |url=https://history.sundance.org/events/21 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Sundance Institute |language=en}} as well as a Grand Jury Prize nomination.

At the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1991, Feferman was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming for her directorial work on the series The Astronomers.{{Cite web |title=LINDA FEFERMAN |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/linda-feferman |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Television Academy |language=en}} In 1998, she was the producer of the PBS documentary series Life Beyond Earth.{{Cite web |title=Life Beyond Earth - About the Film |url=https://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/resources/film.html |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=PBS |language=en}} In 1996, she helped nine California Institute of the Arts students produce a music video for James McMurtry's album Where’d You Hide the Body at the invitation of talent manager and friend Mark Spector;{{Cite news |last=Wharton |first=David |date=1996-02-22 |title=CalArts Music Video Hits the Right Notes |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-22-ca-38621-story.html |access-date=2024-08-06 |work=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for her work as a producer and co-director for the video.{{Cite web |title=Linda Feferman |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/linda-feferman/16679 |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Grammy Awards |language=en}}{{Cite magazine |date=1996-01-13 |title=38th Annual Grammy Awards: Final Nominations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zg4EAAAAMBAJ |access-date=2024-08-06 |magazine=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |page=74 |language=en}}

In the 2000s, Feferman was a director for Closer to Truth and a producer for the BBC documentary Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' (2005).{{Cite web |title=Auschwitz: The Nazis and the "Final Solution" |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/auschwitz-the-nazis-and-the-final-solution/cast/1060000127/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=TVGuide.com |language=en}} In 2017, she directed An Evening With Piper Laurie, a documentary about the career of actress Piper Laurie, which premiered at the Ojai Film Festival.{{Cite news |last=Sun |first=Rebecca |date=2017-03-03 |title=Piper Laurie to Be Honored at Ojai Film Festival |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/piper-laurie-be-honored-at-ojai-film-festival-983176/ |access-date=2024-08-06 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

Feferman has also taught master classes in film production at the University of New Mexico, USC School of Cinematic Arts, and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.{{Cite web |last=Feferman |first=Linda |title=LINDA FEFERMAN - C.V. |url=https://lindafeferman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/REVISED-C.V.-8_26_14.pdf |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=Linda Feferman}}