Debbie Goodstein

Goodstein is an award-winning filmmaker working in the industry as a writer, producer, and director for over 25 years. Her areas of concentration are independent Jewish-themed, Holocaust-oriented, and social justice films. Among her works are the Academy Award shortlisted and Berlin Film Festival honored personal holocaust documentary Voices From the Attic, which won 26 awards and prizes, and is about her family’s survival during WWII, hiding in an attic. Voices was recently named by the Berlin Film Festival as “one of the twenty best Holocaust films of the 20th century,” and picked up by WNET Arts for redistribution on Public television. In 2016, Goodstein produced a sequel short to Voices, called Echoes From The Attic, as a companion piece to the original film. Among her other works, Goodstein produced and directed the narrative film Mighty Fine with Chazz Palminteri and Andie MacDowell, released by Lionsgate and awarded first prize at Toronto’s Female Eye Film Festival. She produced the documentary pilot “FU- Georgia” about the plight of undocumented immigrant students in the South today, picked up by ABC last year. She co-produced the award-winning short “Black” in 2020. She is the Executive Producer on Emma Francis-Snyder’s current film Anatomy of a Life (in production). Goodstein also recently consulted on Snyder’s documentary, Takeover, which was an Academy Award shortlisted film last year. In the past, Goodstein co-wrote the Emmy award-winning film Saying Kaddish for ABC. She produced and directed the TV pilot The Bubbies for NBC. She executive-produced the film Dirk and Betty featuring Marissa Tomei. Before producing her own films, Goodstein worked as a screenwriter and development executive for Siren Pictures. She graduated from Brown University and Columbia Film School with honors.