Name
Donna Deitch
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1945-06-08 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Donna Deitch (born June 8, 1945 in San Francisco, California) is an American film and television director best known for her 1986 film Desert Hearts. The film was groundbreaking as one of the first releases to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream, albeit art house, vein but with positive and respectful themes. Deitch also directed the mini-series The Women of Brewster Place. Her partner is writer Terri Jentz.
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Known For
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While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexp...
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Examines the relationship between sex, women, and the role of female sexuality in popular ...
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A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, fr...
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Homicide detective Melanie Hudson begins a torrid affair with a senator's son who is a sus...
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A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenem...
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This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Fri...
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An improvised late '60s short-subject student film, and debut movie of Charles Burnett, do...
- Soon Directors on Directing (Part 2)
- 1969 Several Friends
- 1986 As Kineastas
- 1985 Desert Hearts as Hungarian Gambler
- 2006 Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema as Self
- 2017 Women in Love: Desert Hearts as Self
- 2017 Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
- 2003 Playboy: Sex at 24 Frames Per Second as Self
- 1988 Calling the Shots as Self
- 2014 Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
- 1998 Angel on My Shoulder as Self / Narrator
