Bruce Sinofsky


Documentarian

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
Director
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Director
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Director
Brother's Keeper (1992)
Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Brother's Keeper (1992)
Screenplay

Producer (Feature Film)

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
Producer
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Producer
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Producer
Brother's Keeper (1992)
Producer
Running Fence (1978)
Associate Producer

Editing (Feature Film)

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Editor
Brother's Keeper (1992)
Editor
Terminal Bliss (1990)
Editor

Post Production (Feature Film)

Brother's Keeper (1992)
Post-Production Supervisor

Special Thanks (Feature Film)

Christo in Paris (1990)
Special Thanks

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Amandla! A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony (2002)
Creative Consultant

Director (Special)

Hollywood High (2003)
Director
Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records (2001)
Director
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Director
Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union (1998)
Director
The Begging Game (1995)
Director

Producer (Special)

Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records (2001)
Producer
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Producer
Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union (1998)
Producer
The Begging Game (1995)
Producer

Post Production (Special)

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Post-Production Supervisor

Director (TV Mini-Series)

Addiction (2007)
Director

Life Events

1989

First collaboration with Joe Berlinger, editing the short "Outrageous Taxi Stories"

1991

Sinofsky left Maysles Films to buy 50 percent of Berlinger's production house Creative Thinking, Inc. (formed 1988)

1992

First feature-length collaboration, "Brother's Keeper"

1992

Edited first fictional film, "Terminal Bliss"

1994

Berlinger and Sinofsky formed Gray Matter, a commercial production house

1995

With Berlinger, filmed "The Begging Game", a segment of the PBS TV series "Frontline"

1996

Co-produced and co-directed (with Berlinger) the acclaimed documentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills"; also edited; film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO

1999

Produced and co-directed "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" which revisited the case and focused on those who felt those originally convicted might be innocent

2001

Directed the documentary "American Masters: Good Rockin' Tonight - The Legacy of Sun Records" (PBS)

2004

Directed the documentary "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" which followed the band for the better part of 2001-2003

Family

Albert Joseph Sinofsky
Father
Beebe Ruth Sinofsky
Mother
Kenneth Sinofsky
Brother
Debra Sinofsky Gibbons
Sister

Companions

Florence Boissinot
Wife

Bibliography