Gail Dolgin (April 4, 1945 – October 7, 2010) was an American filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Daughter from Danang, and The Barber of Birmingham. Daughter from Danang also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, Dolgin earned a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's in education from the University of Oregon. Interested i...
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Gail Dolgin (April 4, 1945 – October 7, 2010) was an American filmmaker. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Daughter from Danang, and The Barber of Birmingham. Daughter from Danang also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Great Neck, Dolgin earned a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's in education from the University of Oregon. Interested in photography, she joined Newsreel, an activist film collective in New York, where she decided to pursue filmmaking professionally. In addition to Daughter From Danang, Dolgin's notable credits include Cuba Va about Cuban youth after the revolution, and Summer of Love, about San Francisco in the summer of 1967. She also collaborated filmmaker Vicente Franco on films.
Her final project, a documentary film project on one of the unsung figures of the African American civil rights movement entitled The Barber of Birmingham was completed...
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