Allie Light

Allie Light is an American film producer, film director and film editor.

Allie Light
Occupation(s)	Film producer, film director, film editor
Website	http://www.lightsaraffilms.com/index.html

Light is the winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the 1994 National Emmy Award for best interview program, has written, directed and produced documentary films with her late partner, Irving Saraf.  Her credits include: Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer (HBO),Dialogues With Madwomen, (Emmy Award; Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival); In The Shadow Of The Stars, (Academy Award); Mitsuye and Nellie, Asian American Poets (PBS); Visions of Paradise (five films about folk artists); Shakespeare's Children (produced by Kate Kline May); Blind Spot: Murder by Women;  Children and Asthma (PBS) and Good Food, Bad Food, Obesity in American Children  (programs about children's health and the environment); An Iraqi Lullaby ; The Sermons of Sister Jane, Believing the Unbelievable (Link TV); and Empress Hotel (Documentary Channel). Her latest film (2018) is a dramatic short narrative film (36 min), Any Wednesday, broadcast on ShortsTV (2021). Allie has published a book of poems, The Glittering Cave and edited an anthology of women's writings, Poetry From Violence.  Her essays appear in publications about women.  Ms. Light lectured in film at City College of San Francisco and, for 15 years, in the Women Studies Program at San Francisco State University.  Her life story appears in On Women Turning 50, Celebrating Mid-Life Discoveries, by Cathleen Rountree (Harper/Collins, 1993), and interviews with Allie are in FilmFatales: Independent Women Directors, by Judith M. Redding & Victoria A. Brownworth (Seal Press, 1997); Documentary Filmmakers Speak by Liz Stubbs (Allworth Press, 2002) and ACTION! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran, by Gary Morris, 2009. Allie has served on the Media Advisory Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ^{[1] [2]}

Filmography

Year	Title	Credits	Notes
1977	Visions of Paradise, Five Films About American Folk Artists: POSSUM TROT - The Life and Work of Calvin Black	Director, Producer
1980	Visions of Paradise, Five Films About American Folk Artists: HUNDRED AND TWO MATURE - The Art of Harry Lieberman	Director, Producer
1982	Visions of Paradise, Five Films About American Folk Artists: GRANDMA'S BOTTLE VILLAGE - The Art OF Tressa Prisbrey	Director, Producer
1983	Visions of Paradise, Five Films About American Folk Artists: THE MONUMENT OF CHIEF ROLLING - MOUNTAIN THUNDER	Director, Producer
1983	Visions of Paradise, Five Films About American Folk Artists: THE ANGEL THAT STANDS BY ME - Minnie Evans' Paintings	Director, Producer
1981	Mitsuye and Nellie, Asian American Poets	Director, Producer, Editor
1991	In The Shadow Of The Stars	Director, Producer, Editor	1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
1993	Dialogues With Madwomen	Director, Editor	Produced and Edited by Irving Saraf
1996	Shakespeare's Children	Director
1997	Rachel's Daughters, Searching For The Causes of Breast Cancer	Director, Editor, Producer, additional camera operator
2000	Blind Spot, Murder By Women	Director, Producer, Editor, additional camera operator
2001	Desert Dogs	Editor
2002	Children and Asthma	Director
2004	Iraqi Lullaby	Editor
2005	Good Food Bad Food, Childhood Obesity	Director, Producer, Editor
2006	The Sermons of Sister Jane	Director, Producer, Editor
2009	Empress Hotel	Director, Producer, Editor
2019	Any Wednesday	Director, Producer, Writer

Personal life

Light married film producer Saraf, becoming his second wife. The couple formed a professional producing partnership beginning in 1971.

Light's husband of thirty-eight years, Irving Saraf, died from Lou Gehrig's disease at their home in San Francisco, California, on December 26, 2012, at the age of 80.^[1][2]

References

1. "Allie Light". Retrieved 2023-08-18.
2. "Biographies". www.lightsaraffilms.com. Retrieved 2023-08-18.

External links

• Allie Light at IMDb
• Allie Light at Women Make Movies