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Lisa Fruchtman is an Academy Award winning editor for feature film and television. Among her many film projects are Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff, Children of a Lesser God, The Godfather Part III, The Doctor, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Dance with Me, and The Woodsman. For television, she has edited HBO films Truman, Witness Protection, Point of Origin and Normal.   Awards include an Oscar for The Right Stuff, Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Editing for Godfather III and Apocalypse Now, Emmy Nomination for Truman. Children of a Lesser God, was nominated for Best Picture.

Rob Fruchtman won the Documentary Director award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for his feature film, Sister Helen, which aired on HBO. He has won three Emmys for his work with PBS. His film, Trust Me, a documentary produced for SHOWTIME, follows Christian, Jewish and Islamic boys at an interfaith camp in North Carolina. Fruchtman directed and produced Seeing Proof in 2007, a film about Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime and its lingering effect on Cambodia’s society, for George Soros’ Open Society Institute. His documentaries have explored the arts, history, world cultures and social justice issues and have aired in festivals and on television around the world.