Deborah Oppenheimer
Deborah Oppenheimer is an American film and television producer.
She won an Academy Award in 2001 for best documentary feature for producing( 2000).
The film was written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, released by Warner Bros., and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Judi Dench narrated.
Following its theatrical release, it appeared on HBO and PBS.
In 2014, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport was deemed" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation for all time in the National Film Registry.
Oppenheimer co-wrote the teacher ’s study guide and co-authored with Harris the film ’s companion book of the same name by Bloomsbury Publishing( 2000; reissued 2018).
It has a preface by Richard Attenborough and an introduction by historian David Cesarani.
The book was republished by Bloomsbury in 2017 and the film returned to HBO in May 2019.
Oppenheimer ’s most recent feature- length documentary, FOSTER, presented by Participant and Emerson Collective, premiered theatrically and on HBO in May 2019 during Foster Care Awareness Month.
Reunited with writer/ director Harris and several of the award- winning production team from" Into the Arms of Strangers", the film is a revealing first- hand look at the complex foster care system as seen through the eyes of those who know it best.
Oppenheimer conceived and led U.S. strategies and was production consultant to the Carnival Films television series, Downton Abbey during its complete run.
The series was executive produced by Gareth Neame and written by Julian Fellowes.
Downton Abbey is the most nominated non-U.S. show in history and the highest rated PBS drama ever.
As Executive Vice President of Carnival Films, Oppenheimer developed and executive produced Christopher Guest ’s Family Tree for HBO and BBC1, starring Chris O' Dowd.
As President of Bruce Helford ’s Mohawk Productions at Warner Bros., Oppenheimer executive produced hundreds of episodes of television shows starring Drew Carey, George Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Norm Macdonald, Bernie Mac, Will Ferrell, and Pamela Adlon, and worked with development partners including Sandra Bullock, Kenya Barris, Stephanie Savage, McG, and more.
Oppenheimer was associate producer for the Cable ACE Award- winning production of the Showtime/ PBS drama, Master Harold ... and the Boys, written by Athol Fugard, produced by Michael Brandman, directed by Michael Lindsay- Hogg, and starring Tony- award winning actors John Kani, Matthew Broderick, and Zakes Mokae.
City of Strangers
City of Strangers may refer to:
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier( born 25 April 1941) is a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
In the Arms of My Enemy
In the Arms of My Enemy is a 2007 Belgian film written and directed by Micha Wald.
Arms of dominion
Arms of Dominion are the arms borne both by a monarch and the state in a monarchy.
In this respect they are both the national arms and the arms of the nation's monarch, who is the monarchy's sovereign, and are thus simultaneously the personal arms of the monarch and the arms of the state he or she reigns over.
The Clockmaker
The Clockmaker( also known as The Clockmaker of St. Paul and The Watchmaker of St. Paul) is a 1974 French crime drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.
Based on the novel" L' Horloger d' Everton" by Georges Simenon, it tells the story of a widowed father who first discovers how little he knows about his teenage son, who kills a man and with his girl goes on the run, but then decides that whatever their faults he will stand by the pair.
The film was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear- Special Jury Prize.
In the United States, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review.
Company of Strangers
Company of Strangers may refer to:
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is the 2000 Academy Award- winning Warner Bros. documentary feature film about the remarkable British rescue operation, known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to Great Britain.
These children, or" Kinder" in German, were taken into foster homes and hostels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents.
The majority of them never saw their families again.
Written and directed by Mark Jonathan Harris, produced by Deborah Oppenheimer, narrated by Judi Dench, and made with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it utilized rare and extensive footage, photographs, and artifacts, and is told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents.
The film was released on DVD and VHS on August 28, 2001 by Warner Home Video.
Mark Jonathan Harris
Mark Jonathan Harris (born 1941) is an American documentary filmmaker probably best known for his films  (2000) and "The Long Way Home" (1997).
He has directed three documentaries which have gone on to win Oscars, across three different decades.
Educated at Harvard, Harris co-produced the short "The Redwoods" for the Sierra Club with Trevor Greenwood; the short won the 1967 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.
The aforementioned "Into The Arms" and "Long Way Home" also landed Academy Awards.
Harris started out as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, and reports that on his first story he went into a police station and had his car stolen from in front of it.
The police called him a few weeks later to ask if he had found his car.
Harris tried investigative journalism next but quit after realizing he did not like to embarrass people.
Harris believes that filmmakers can construct a cinema verite film beforehand by considering repeatable events—
that is, by determining which events are likely to recur frequently, and being there to film those events when they do.
He tested this theory on a film on the Peace Corps in Colombia, in a small village 50 miles outside Bogotá.
The film was not especially positive about the Peace Corps experience; the Peace Corps decided not to use it for recruiting, but to use it for training people who have been in for about a year.
Harris has also directed a film on migrant farmworkers and their dismal wages and living conditions;one of the "stars" of his documentary was Luis Valdez, who went on to direct the film "La Bamba".
Harris' film "The Long Way Home" deals with the experience of Jewish refugees after World War II.
Spike Lee condemned the second half of the film as propaganda for the state of Israel; nonetheless the film won an Oscar in 1997 for Best Documentary.
Harris next directed a film less complimentary towards the state, which had been commissioned specifically for the 50th anniversary of Israel.
Harris intended the film, "A Dream No More", to reflect Israel, "warts and all"; he spent 15 months and nearly $1.5 million U.S. making the film, which went over deadline as he tried to determine final structure for the film.
He turned in a final print and had the film flagged the next day; it was never shown.
Harris considers this film the second of his "Jewish trilogyInto the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport," the third part of the trilogy, tells the stories of several people whose parents sent them on the kindertransport to escape the Germans, as well as one woman who was meant to go and did not because her father pulled her off the train.
The film won the 2000 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
In 2003, Harris wrote "Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives".
He was nominated for outstanding writing for non-fiction writing for this documentary.
As a documentary filmmaker, Harris casts his films carefully, talking to people beforehand and deciding who has an interesting story and who tells it well on camera.
He also refuses to start filming immediately, but prefers to talk with the subjects for about an hour beforehand.
He is currently the producer of a documentary called "With One Hand Tied", which is based on the book "Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II".
Harris is also the author of various children's books, a side career he stumbled into the mid-1980s: he returned to journalism because he could not find funding for a documentary he wanted to make.
After writing an article about a young child, he was contacted by an agent who asked him to write children's literature and has since written several children's books.
Harris is currently a professor at the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California.
Kate Amend
Kate Amend is an American documentary film editor whose career spans more than thirty years.
She is known for being a dedicated editor who finds the emotional center of each scene she works with.
A member of American Cinema Editors, Amend is the recipient of an Eddie Award for Into the Arms of Strangers:( 2001); she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for" The Case Against 8"( 2014).
She was the editor on two Academy Award- winning films:
Into the Arms of Strangers( 2014) and the Long Way Home( 1997).
She is the recipient of the International Documentary Association ’s inaugural award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing.
Amend graduated from UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University with a master's in humanities, later gaining an interest in film while teaching her discipline at the City College of San Francisco.
She worked briefly at a production company of exploitation films before breaking into documentary work as an apprentice editor on Johanna Demetrakas's" Right Out of History"( 1980).
Amend is also noted for her work on( 2012) and" The Long Way Home"( 1997).

Question: Do both directors of films Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport and The Clockmaker have the same nationality?
Answer: no