Allie Light is an American film producer, film director and

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film ed ...

. Light co-directed, edited and produced the 1991

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

, ''

In the Shadow of the Stars ''In the Shadow of the Stars'' is a 1991 American documentary film about the San Francisco Opera by the husband-and-wife team of Irving Saraf and Allie Light as it depicts the lives of the various members of the chorus, rather than the big name s ...

'', with her husband,

Irving Saraf Irving Saraf (1932 – December 26, 2012) was a Polish-born American film producer, film editor, film director and academic. Saraf won an Oscar for producing the 1991 documentary film, '' In the Shadow of the Stars''. In total, Saraf had more t ...

. Light and Saraf won the

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for producing ''In the Shadow of the Stars''. Light married film producer Saraf, becoming his second wife. The couple formed a professional producing partnership beginning in 1971. In 1995, Light and Saraf were jointly nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for their work on the

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show, '' Dialogues with Madwomen''. Light's husband of thirty-eight years, Irving Saraf, died from

Lou Gehrig’s disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most commo ...

at their home in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, on December 26, 2012, at the age of 80.

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Women Make Movies Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City. Founded by Ariel Dougherty and Sheila Paige with Dolores Bargowski, WMM was first a feminist production collective that emerged from city-wide Women's Li ...

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