Freida Lee Mock


Freida Lee Mock is an American filmmaker, director, screenwriter and producer. She is a co-founder of the American Film Foundation with Terry Sanders. Her documentary, won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1995.

Background

Mock was the first Governor of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied both History and Law.

Director

Mock directed a documentary Anita, about Anita Hill, which will premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. She has directed the documentaries G-Dog, Sing China!, Wrestling With Angels a documentary feature about playwright Tony Kushner, Bird by Bird with Anne about author Anne Lamott, Return with Honor , ', and the documentary shorts Lt. Watada, Sing! , and various episodes of the TV show ' in 1982, including episodes on the screenwriters Robert Towne, Carl Foreman, Neil Simon, Eleanor Perry, Paul Mazursky and William Goldman, all done in 1982.
Also, she directed a documentary called Anita. This film shows the life of Anita Hill and what she went through when dealing with sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas

Producer

Mock's production credits include many of the documentaries she directed, such as ', Sing!, Bird by Bird with Annie, Wrestling With Angels, G-Dog, Lt. Watada, Sing China! and Return with Honor, which was also presented by Tom Hanks.
Early in her career, Mock produced episodes of the TV show National Geographic Specials and Untamed Frontier. She has also produced the documentaries ', To Live or Let Die, and about Vienna-born composer and musician Herbert Zipper that was also an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short in 1996. She also produced the documentaries Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me.
Mock produced "The Kennedy Center Honors" biographies, which honors individuals for lifetime achievement in the performing arts -- Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Katherine Dunham, Virgil Thomson, Elia Kazan and others.
Mock recently produced the documentary Enterprising Women, celebrating two and a half centuries of entrepreneurial women in America.

Awards and accolades

Mock has received an Academy Award, five Academy Award nominations, two prime-time Emmy Awards, and three prime-time Emmy Award nominations.
Mock is the recipient of grants from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the American Film Institute, Women in Film, the Robeson Fund and numerous foundations in support of her film projects.

Selected filmography

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