Stories From the Lighthouse
A ninety minute documentary following three visually impaired youth as they prepare to make their transition to independence.
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Deborah Dickson - Director
Deborah Dickson, three-time Academy Award nominee, is a non-fiction filmmaker whose over thirty documentary films have premiered at Sundance, Berlin and many other film festivals and have been awarded Emmys, the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Peabody Award and Ace awards.
"Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House" premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 and won over 12 awards at festivals worldwide. "The Education of Gore Vidal" premiered at Sundance in 2002.
Dickson collaborated with Susan Froemke and Maysles Films on eight award-winning films—from "Christo in Paris"to "Lalee's Kin", which premiered at Sundance in 2000. "Lalee's Kin" was nominated for an Academy Award and a Spirit Award and won an Alfred I. DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2004.
Michael Beuttler - Producer
Michael Beuttler is a documentary producer, director, and editor at Simon + Film, whose work has aired on PBS, Hulu, Apple, Starz, and more. Michael got his start working as an associate producer under Academy Award winner Kirk Simon on countless short films and the feature documentary “The Pulitzer at 100” (2016). He worked with Susan Froemke on PBS’s “American Masters - Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is”(2020) and co-produced and edited the feature documentary “You Can’t Kill Meme” (2021).
Ann Collins - Editor
Ann is a New York based documentary film editor
who was nominated for an American Cinema Editor’s Eddie award for her work on Griffin Dunne’s “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold”
which premiered at the 2017 New York Film. Prior to that, she co-produced and edited “Swim Team,” an independent documentary which has won
numerous awards and premiered on PBS’s POV series.
Other credits include the documentaries “Belly Talkers”, “The Charcoal People”, and “Sound and Fury”, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving theatrical and television distribution. “Sound and Fury” was nominated for an Academy Award. For television, she edited “Frontline: Merchants of Cool“ and “Porgy & Bess: An American Voice” as well as productions for Martha Stewart, MTV, Lifetime, CBS, and PBS.
Bob Richman - Cinematographer
Cinematographer Bob Richman began his film career working with vérité pioneers Albert and David Maysles, quickly transitioning from production assistant to camera assistant then operator. Finally he made the leap to director of photography on the Maysles’ "Umbrellas," which chronicled artist Christo’s installation of three thousand umbrellas north of Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Today, Richman is an Emmy-nominated and Sundance award-winning cinematographer on almost a hundred documentaries including: Davis Guggenheim’s "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman," Nathaniel Kahn’s "My Architect," Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s HBO films "Paradise Lost" 1, 2 & 3 and "Metallica: Some Kinda Monster," RJ Cutler’s "The September Issue," "Oprah’s Master Class" and Sundance Channel’s "Iconoclasts."