Overview
Donna Deitch
Known For
Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts
DESERT HEARTS depended on the connection between its two lead...
Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch,...
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all...
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays...
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Directed by Kevin Burns, this documentary from Playboy Home Video...
Angel on My Shoulder
Donna Deitch directed this documentary about the illness and death...
Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses...
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Donna Deitch (born June 8, 1945 in San Francisco, California) is an American film and television director best known for her 1986 film Desert Hearts. The film was groundbreaking as one of the first releases to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream, albeit art house, vein but with positive and respectful themes. Deitch also directed the mini-series The Women of Brewster Place. Her partner is writer Terri Jentz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donna Deitch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia