AMANDA ZINOMAN

1 Tiffany Place, apt 1E - Brooklyn, New York 11231

AZinoman@gmail.com - 917 880 9635


SELECTED CREDITS

A CITIZENS GUIDE TO PRESERVING DEMOCRACY, WNET 2023

1 hour special about the obligations of democracy

Lead Editor

ArtsTalk, WNET 2023

Seven half hour pilot episodes for a new series.

Editor

GIULIANI, WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAS MAYOR, CNN/Left Right 2022

The last episode of a 4 episode portrait.

Editor

SHADOWLAND, Paramount/Radical Media 2021/2022

One episode of a series about Conspiracy theories and those that believe them.

Co-production with Atlantic Magazine

Editor

THE CARLOS WATSON SHOW, Ozy Media 2021

A Daily Interview show

Editor

DIVISIBLE/INDIVISIBLE OHIO, SPECTRUM/THE DOCUMENTARY GROUP 2020

Story of controversial HB6

Editor

RETRO REPORTS, PBS 2019

8 part series revealing connections between the old news stories and today

Editor

AMERICA’S WAR ON WOMEN , America Divided/EPIX 2018

Gretchen Carlson investigates sexual harassment on Capitol Hill

Editor

LOVE AND STUFF, Judith Helfand 2018

An independent documentary about a new old mother

Co-editor

TIME:THE KALEIF BROWDER STORY Cinemart  2017

A six part portrait of the life of Kaleif Browder and the multiple systems that failed him

Editor, Episodes 5/6, Spike TV

 

UNABOMBER/JONESTOWN Lincoln Square Productions/American Hero Channel 2017

Two hour long archival shows

Editor

PARCHED:SACRIFICIAL WATERS Jigsaw Productions, 2016

One episode of a 4 part series examining the knowing pollution by Dupont of the ground water in West Virginia.

Editor,  National Geographic Channel Emmy Nomination 2017

  

DEPUTIZED, COMO PUDO PASAR  Seedworks Films, 2011/2012

An examination of the 2008 killing of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcello Lucero by 7 high school kids in Patchogue, Long Island

Editor/Co-Director, America Reframed 2014/2015

 

SECRETS OF YOUR MIND Nightline Prime/ABC 2010

Four Prime Time hours about different aspects of the brain

Editor

SHOLEM ALEICHEM: LAUGHING IN THE DARKNESS  Riverside Films, 2009

The story of the greatest Yiddish writer and the world he portrayed.

Editor, Theatrical Release

 

500 WORDS OR LESS  Point Made Productions, 2009

Portraits of four college seniors and the ups and downs of applying for college

Supervising Editor/Co-Director

 

THE LAST JEWS OF LIBYA  Liontree Productions 2007

The final decades of a centuries-old Sephardic Jewish community told through the lives of the Roumani family.

Editor/Writer   Tribeca Film Festival/ Sundance Channel

 

NOW WITH BILL MOYERS Public Affairs Television/PBS 2002-2004

Staff editor on weekly current affairs magazine show.

Staff Editor    Emmy Nomination 2003

THUNDER IN GUYANA  Bowjee Productions, 2001

A personal documentary profiling Janet Jagen, a white Jewish woman from Chicago,

who in 1997 was elected President of Guyana,

Editor and Co-writer Independent Lens 2005

 

DRINKING APART  Rosenberg Productions/HBO, 2000

A feature length verite documentary following three families struggling with addiction,

Editor

 

THE LOST CHILDREN OF ROCKDALE COUNTY  10/20/Frontline, 1999

A ninety-minute documentary exposing the secret world of a group of suburban Atlanta

adolescents, following an unusual syphilis outbreak,

Editor,   Peabody Award 2000

 

CITYARTS WNET/Channel 13 1995

Weekly arts show

Staff Editor

CARMEN MIRANDA, BANANAS IS MY BUSINESS  International Cinema, 1994

A dramatic documentary about the Latin/American film star,

Editor POV 1995

 

THE SHVITZ  Five Points Media, 1994

A portrait of the Russian steam baths in America,

Editor




SELECTED SHORT FORM

THISVOTES4U   Filmmakers for Hillary 2016

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Splash Studios   2014-16

 EXTRAORDINARY LIVES  2014

A series of 10 web videos for India Hicks new website

DESANTISBREINDEL  2012-2013

Short films for the internet including a 20 film series for the American Hospital Association and Portraits of the grantees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

GODIVA WOMEN HONOREES 2012, 2013

4 Portraits of Women honored by Godiva chocolate

CRISIS IN THE CRIB: SAVING OUR NATIONS BABIES Madstone Productions 2009

A week in Memphis of education and outreach about the high rates of infant mortality in the African-American community

Fundraising Trailers for many many projects  for various clients

Big Mouth Productions, Kartemquin Productions, If The Dancer Dances etc, Exile Studios

 

 

REALITY

 SHADE, QUEENS OF NYC Cowboy, Bear, Ninja/ Fusion 2017

3 Episodes of an 11 part series following the lives of 8 drag queens in Hells Kitchen

Lead Editor

 

HOPKINS 24/7 ABC News 2007/2008

A verite series following the doctors of Johns Hopkins Hospital

Editor

 

THE FIRST 48, FOOL FOR LOVE/DUMPED  Granada/A&E, 2006

An episode of the series covering the first 48 hours of a murder investigation.

Post-Producer

 

BOSTON PD Spike TV 2006

A four part series behind the scenes with the Boston Police Department

Supervising Editor

 

TRAUMA, LIFE IN THE ER NYT TV/The Learning Channel, 1997/98

Four hour long verite documentaries following the doctors of the ER

Producer/Editor Prime Time Emmy Nomination 1998, Non-Fiction Picture Editing

 

 

 

 

 

 

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