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Donna Deitch (born June 8, 1945, San Francisco, California) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and actor best known for her 1985 film Desert Hearts.
Mar 28, 2022 · Desert Hearts movie. Official website of director Donna Deitch.
Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. [5] The screenplay, written by Natalie Cooper, is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule.
Mar 28, 2022 · Donna Deitch segued from award winning documentary filmmaker to Producing and Directing 'Desert Hearts', the landmark hit of the 1986 Sundance, Telluride Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals.
Donna Deitch was born on 8 June 1945 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a director and editor, known for Desert Hearts (1985), Heroes (2006) and NYPD Blue (1993).
Nov 14, 2017 · There were already, however, lesbian novels. Filmmaker Donna Deitch devoured Jane Rule’s pioneering Desert of the Heart (1964), then traveled to Vancouver to persuade the expat professor, who had fled the United States at the height of McCarthyism, to grant her the rights.
Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman.
