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Producer
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USA
Oppenheim Jonathan
Jonathan Oppenheim's editing credits include Sister Helen (Documentary Directing Award, Sundance); Children Underground (also co-producer, Oscar nomination, Sundance Special Jury Prizee, Gotham and IDA awards); the classic documentary feature Paris Is Burning (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, New York Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics and IDA Awards); Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love, about the African singer's attempt to transmit moderate Islam through music; Out of the Shadow (PBS), about a woman’s life with her paranoid schizophrenic mother; Caught in the Crossfire (PBS), a cinema verite look at three Arab-American New Yorkers in the wake of 9/11; Phyllis and Harold, an exploration of a failed 60-year marriage; Strongman (co-editor, 2009 Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature); Arguing The World (Peabody Award, along with producer/director Joseph Dorman). Most recently, Oppenheim edited and co-produced The Oath, a highly acclaimed portrait of Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard.