Dayna Goldfine
For over 30 years, Emmy-award winning director/producer Dayna Goldfine has created critically-acclaimed multi-character documentary narratives that braid their characters’ individual personal stories to form a larger portrait of the human experience. Her most recent film, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (2021) had its world premiere in Venice and its North American premiere in Telluride. It will open theatrically nationwide in July 2022. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013) had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and its European premiere in Berlin before opening theatrically nationwide to strong critical reviews. Goldfine’s work also includes: Something Ventured (2011), which premiered at SXSW, and was broadcast nationally on PBS in 2013. Ballets Russes (2005), which was recognized as one of the top 5 documentaries of 2005 by both the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review and appeared on a dozen critical “10 Best Films” lists, including Time Magazine, Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter; Now and Then: From Frosh to Seniors, which premiered theatrically in October 1999 and aired on PBS in 2000 as that year’s lead program of Independent Lens; Kids of Survival: The Art and Life of Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (1996), the recipient of two national Emmy Awards; FROSH: Nine Months in a Freshman Dorm (1994); and Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul (1988). Goldfine is a member of the Documentary Branch of AMPAS.
