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Amanda Zinoman(I)

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Set against the backdrop of the college admissions process, 'In 500 Words or Less' introduces us to four of the 1.5 million families who navigate the college application process each year. Throughout the course of one school year, these four high school seniors take on this distinct rite of passage and discover within themselves their own identity, their familyÂ’s dynamics and what it feels like to become an adult.
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Amanda Zinoman is known for Trauma: Life in the E.R. (1997), In 500 Words or Less (2009) and Deputized (2013).
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    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 nomination total

    Known for

    Trauma: Life in the E.R. (1997)
    Trauma: Life in the E.R.
    8.3
    TV Series
    • Editor
    In 500 Words or Less (2009)
    In 500 Words or Less
    7.2
    • Editor
    • 2009
    Deputized
    • Editor
    • 2013
    Retro Report on PBS (2019)
    Retro Report on PBS
    8.2
    TV Series
    • Editor

    Credits

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    Editor

    • A Citizen's Guide to Preserving Democracy (2024)
      A Citizen's Guide to Preserving Democracy
      6.0
      TV Special
      • Editor
      • 2024
    • PBS Arts Talk
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2023
    • Shadowland (2022)
      Shadowland
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • Editor
      • 2022
    • Retro Report on PBS (2019)
      Retro Report on PBS
      8.2
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2019
    • Deborah Roberts and David Muir in 20/20 (1978)
      20/20
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2019
    • Norman Lear, Rosario Dawson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Williams, Common, and America Ferrera in America Divided (2016)
      America Divided
      4.9
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2018
    • Chain of Command (2018)
      Chain of Command
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2018
    • Brita in Shade: Queens of NYC (2017)
      Shade: Queens of NYC
      6.6
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2017
    • TIME: The Kalief Browder Story (2017)
      TIME: The Kalief Browder Story
      8.4
      TV Mini Series
      • Editor
      • 2017
    • Doug Shultz in Parched (2017)
      Parched
      8.0
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2017
    • 24 Hours of Reality: The Road Forward (2016)
      24 Hours of Reality: The Road Forward
      1.6
      TV Movie
      • Editor
      • 2016
    • Born in the Wild (2015)
      Born in the Wild
      4.1
      TV Series
      • Editor
      • 2015
    • Deputized
      • Editor
      • 2013
    • Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011)
      Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
      7.2
      • Editor
      • 2011
    • In 500 Words or Less (2009)
      In 500 Words or Less
      7.2
      • supervising editor
      • 2009

    Editorial Department

    • Jane Noury in Always Jane (2021)
      Always Jane
      6.1
      TV Series
      • additional editor
      • 2021
    • Love & Stuff (2020)
      Love & Stuff
      7.5
      • additional editing
      • 2020
    • No Passport Required (2018)
      No Passport Required
      8.0
      TV Series
      • additional editor
      • 2020
    • Bedlam (2019)
      Bedlam
      7.5
      • additional editor
      • 2019
    • If the Dancer Dances (2018)
      If the Dancer Dances
      7.2
      • sample editor
      • 2018
    • America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa
      7.1
      TV Series
      • additional editor
      • 2016
    • Edge of Eighteen (2014)
      Edge of Eighteen
      7.6
      TV Series
      • additional editor
      • 2014
    • Dark Horse Nation (2014)
      Dark Horse Nation
      7.3
      TV Series
      • additional editor
      • 2014
    • Hopkins (2008)
      Hopkins
      8.5
      TV Mini Series
      • segment editor
      • 2008
    • Sylvia Chase, Michel Martin, Michele Mitchell, Bill Moyers, Christopher Shays, David Brancaccio, Peter Singer, Robert W. McChesney, Christine Todd Whitman, Kevin Phillips, Tom DeLay, Elizabeth Warren, Peter Piot, Peter Mugyenyi, Maria Hinojosa, Janice Crouse, Linda Uvari, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson in Now on PBS (2002)
      Now on PBS
      6.6
      TV Series
      • additional editing
      • interview editor
      • 2002–2004
    • Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)
      Just, Melvin: Just Evil
      7.0
      • contributing editor
      • 2000
    • Vote for Me: Politics in America (1996)
      Vote for Me: Politics in America
      5.8
      TV Special
      • additional editor
      • 1996
    • Chimps: So Like Us (1990)
      Chimps: So Like Us
      7.0
      Short
      • assistant editor
      • 1990
    • American Masters (1985)
      American Masters
      8.2
      TV Series
      • assistant editor
      • 1989
    • A Composer's Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera (1986)
      A Composer's Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
      7.9
      • assistant editor
      • 1986

    Director

    • Deputized
      • co-director
      • 2013
    • In 500 Words or Less (2009)
      In 500 Words or Less
      7.2
      • Director
      • 2009

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      • Amanda Cinoman

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