Victoria Hochberg Explained

Victoria Hochberg
Birth Name:Victoria Greene Hochberg
Birth Date:24 December 1952
Birth Place:United States
Alma Mater:Antioch College, B.A. 1974
Occupation:Film, television director, writer
Years Active:1975–present

Victoria Greene Hochberg (born December 24, 1952) is an American film and television director and writer. She was one of the Original Six, a group of women directors who created the Women's Steering Committee of the Directors Guild of America, to protest against gender discrimination in Hollywood.[1]

Education

Victoria Greene Hochberg graduated from Antioch College in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.

Career

She directed episodes of Doogie Howser, M.D., The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Touched by an Angel, Models Inc., Melrose Place, Central Park West, Ally McBeal, , Sex and the City, Cold Feet, Tucker, The Chris Isaak Show, State of Grace, Kitchen Confidential, Ghost Whisperer, Notes from the Underbelly and Reaper. As well as writing I Married a Centerfold[2] and four episodes of the series Me & Mrs. C.

Hochberg's 1975 short documentary Metroliner was preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in conjunction with New York Women in Film & Television, in 2015.[3]

Hochberg has won two Daytime Emmy Awards for directing ABC Afterschool Special: Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story (1988) and the PBS television film Sweet 15 (1990).[4] She has directed music videos for the Eagles and Boz Scaggs.[4]

In 2002, she directed the film Dawg starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley.

Notes and References

  1. News: Syme. Rachel. The Original Six: The Story of Hollywood's Forgotten Feminist Crusaders. February 26, 2016. Pacific Standard. February 26, 2016.
  2. Web site: I Married A Centerfold. https://archive.today/20130913175118/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/24111/I-Married-a-Centerfold/details?gwh=82AB8CD8FFD9E824BA319703F0ED1EB0. dead. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. 2013-09-13.
  3. Web site: Preserved Projects. Academy Film Archive.
  4. Web site: A Conversation with Director/Writer Victoria Hochberg . 2014-03-14.