Freida Lee Mock
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Freida Lee Mock is an Academy and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, credited with producing films about a wide variety of historical and contemporary subjects. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders.
Mock's diverse production credits include "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision", "Sing!" (about a Los Angeles community children's choir), "Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember", "To Live or Let Die", and "Return with Honor", presented by Tom Hanks.
Mock is currently in production on "Wrestling with Angels", a documentary feature about playwright Tony Kushner and "Enterprising Women", celebrating two and a half centuries of entrepreneurial women in America.
She is the Chair of the Documentary Executive Committee and Governor of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Sing!
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. Academy Award Winner, Best Feature Documentary Film, 1995.
- Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
- Return With Honor, presented by Tom Hanks
- To Live or Let Die
- Bird by Bird, with Anne Lamott
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[edit] See also
- American Film Foundation (Co-founder of)
