Frank Stiefel is an American filmmaker and photographer. His film
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 won the Oscar for Best Documentary
Short Subject.Stiefel was born to a Jewish family in New York and
attended The City College of New York. Stiefel's career in the
television business began in the 1970s, when he was making
commercials, among other things. In 1999 he was the executive producer
of the documentary short film Two Weddings. He made his directorial
debut in 2009 with the movie Ingelore, a short film about the Jewish
Holocaust survivor Ingelore Herz Honigstein. The documentary, which he
dedicated to his mother, tells the story of how his mother has
survived being raped by two Nazis and managed to flee to the United
States. This film was presented at film festivals and broadcast on the
station HBO.Frank Stiefel is married and has two daughters.
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 won the Oscar for Best Documentary
Short Subject.Stiefel was born to a Jewish family in New York and
attended The City College of New York. Stiefel's career in the
television business began in the 1970s, when he was making
commercials, among other things. In 1999 he was the executive producer
of the documentary short film Two Weddings. He made his directorial
debut in 2009 with the movie Ingelore, a short film about the Jewish
Holocaust survivor Ingelore Herz Honigstein. The documentary, which he
dedicated to his mother, tells the story of how his mother has
survived being raped by two Nazis and managed to flee to the United
States. This film was presented at film festivals and broadcast on the
station HBO.Frank Stiefel is married and has two daughters.
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