WHO WE ARE

Deborah Fryer stepped into filmmaking as a freelancer in 1993, and has worn almost every hat in the business since: she has researched, written, produced, directed, negotiated usage rights, edited, shot video, recorded sound, and/or created and tracked budgets for almost 200 documentaries and educational videos covering the environment, history, science, medicine, health care, energy, archaeology and anthropology. She has worked on projects for NOVA, Frontline, PBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, HGTV, Turner Broadcasting, American Experience, MSNBC, Free Speech TV, Warren Miller Films, National Audubon Society, the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, InJoy Video Productions and Films for the Humanities and Sciences. To view clips of projects Deborah has contributed to, please visit the Projects page.

Deborah wrote, produced, directed shot and edited her first independent film, a documentary short about a young man living with Parkinson's disease. SHAKEN: Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson's Patient will be premiering on PBS stations nationwide in April 2009.

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Deborah Fryer is also a freelance writer. Her creative nonfiction essays have been published in The Best Travel Writing 2009, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2006, The Best Travel Writing 2005, In the Eye, and the online literary journal, The King's English. She has also contributed to Nights Publications (a travel magazine about the Caribbean), and Siemens: Sunscape (a magazine about solar energy). Deborah Fryer won the Moondance International Film Festival Short Story Award in 2004 and 2005, and received an Honorable Mention in 2004 and 2005 from New Millennium Writings, a literary journal which called Deborah “one of the 20 up-and-coming writers in the U.S. to watch.” 

Deborah's still photographs have been recognized by Smithsonian, National Audubon Society, Brandeis Review, WGBH/NOVA, the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and the United Nations Environment Programme.

When Deborah is not making movies, writing, or taking pictures, she can be found on her yoga mat, where much of her creative inspiration is born.

Deborah received her B.A. in Classics and Art History from Oberlin College in 1984, earned an M.A. in Latin at Columbia University in 1986, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Classics at Princeton University in 1993.

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