2002 | Produced an HBO documentary "American Standoff" |
| Directed documentary set in the Hamptons (lensed 2001) for ABC TV; set to air in 2002 |
2000 | Helmed the documentary "My Generation" |
1999 | Signed to make fictional feature directorial debut "In the Boom Boom Room", adapted from David Rabe's play |
1998 | Executive produced and directed "Friends for Life: Living With AIDS" (The DIsney Channel) |
1998 | Earned widespread praise for "Wild Man Blues", a documentary about the 1996 European tour of Woody Allen's jazz band |
1993 | Produced and directed "Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson," a rare primetime documentary for NBC-TV for which she was given creative control |
1983 | Directed first fiction film and first TV movie, "Keeping On" for PBS's "American Playhouse", which dealt with unionization of textile mill workers in the south |
1979 | Co-directed documentary footage of concert film, "No Nukes", with Haskell Wexler |
1979 | "Crystal Lee" abandoned when Martin Ritt began production on "Norma Rae", loosely based on the same woman and the same mill workers' strike |
1978 | Announced fictional feature project under the working title, "Crystal Lee", based on Crystal Lee Jordan's struggle to unionize workers in J P Stevens textile mill in Roanoke Rapids NC and her gradual politicization over a five year period; Kopple was to produce and direct; initial script was by Nancy Dowd and Rip Torn had been signed to portray the union organizer; Kopple had researched working conditions when she began a two-week stint as a towel folder in a Southern mill in March 1978, earning $2.25/hour for a ten-hour day |
1976 | Produced and directed documentary, "Harlan County, USA"; film shown at the New York Film Festival; cost $350,000 |
1972 | Moved to Harlan County in Kentucky to film union struggle at the Brookside mine |
1972 | Was one of the 18 anonymous directors of "Winter Solider" |
| Was camerawoman on a video about the Young Republicans for Nixon at the Republican convention and soundwoman on film about the Year of the Woman at the Democratic convention |
| Worked professionally as an editor, soundwoman and camerawoman on documentary films often for the Maysles brothers |
| Began making films in a clinical psychology class in college |
| Raised in Scarsdale, New York |
