Biography
Donna segued from documentaries to features with 1986's landmark lesbian love story, Desert Hearts. Her TV career launched when Oprah hired her to direct The Women Of Brewster Place. Other TV credits include Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991 Sundance Film Festival), Sexual Advances, Common Ground, and the Emmy Award–winning The Devil's Arithmetic. Currently Donna is working on a sequel to Desert Hearts and an adaptation of Terri Jentz's memoir, Strange Piece of Paradise.
Sundance Film Festival
Director
Movies | |
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2000 |
Common Ground (TV movie) |
1999 |
The Devil's Arithmetic (TV movie) |
1994 |
A Change of Place (TV movie) |
Criminal Passion |
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1992 |
Sexual Advances (TV movie) |
1991 |
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (TV movie) |
1989 |
The Women of Brewster Place (TV movie) |
1985 |
Desert Hearts |
1975 |
Woman to Woman |
Documentaries | |
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1997 |
Angel on My Shoulder |
Producer
Movies | |
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1985 |
Desert Hearts |
Actress
Movies | |
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1985 |
Desert Hearts |
Documentaries | |
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2014 |
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women |
2000 |
Intimate Portrait: Robin Givens (TV movie) |
1990 |
Intimate Portrait (series) |
1988 |
Calling the Shots |
Camerawoman
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1973 |
Home Movie |