Filmmakers

Nick Doob ( born 1947) is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer whose documentary career spans more than five decades. A native of New Haven and a 1969 graduate of Yale University, he began making films in the late 1960s and soon formed a long association with pioneering documentary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker. Doob went on to work as director, cinematographer, editor, and producer on numerous documentaries, including Murray Lerner’s Academy Award-winning From Mao to Mozart and Megan Mylan’s Academy Award-winning Smile Pinki. His other credits include The War Room, Down from the Mountain, Moon Over Broadway, Only the Strong Survive, and the Emmy-winning Elaine Stritch at Liberty.

Doob’s own Street Music (1979), available on Folkstreams, documents street performers in seven American cities and is an important record of the vitality and variety of American street performance in the 1970s. He also made The Urban Gospel Ministry of Robert and Lily Butler, available on Folkstreams. In 2015, Doob donated original materials from his early films to the Yale Film Archive, which has since preserved Street Music and several of his earlier works, including Plastic Saints, Costumed Dancer, 42nd St Movie, and London Songs.