AMANDA ZINOMAN
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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
References available on Request