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An American documentary filmmaker, born in the United States. She studied art at Hartford Art School before graduating in 1973 from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, where she studied photography and experimental filmmaking. She then moved to Michigan, where she began making films at the university and worked as a cinematographer on independent films. She collaborated with director Don Alan Pennebaker on the 1979 documentary Town Bloody Hall, which dealt with the controversial gender debates moderated by Norman Mailer, and the 1993 documentary The War Room, which documented the 1992 US presidential election. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.