Light is the winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the 1994 National Emmy Award for best interview program, has written, directed and produced documentary films with her late partner, Irving Saraf.

Allie has served on the Media Advisory Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

[1] [2] Light married film producer Saraf, becoming his second wife.

The couple formed a professional producing partnership beginning in 1971.

Light's husband of thirty-eight years, Irving Saraf, died from Lou Gehrig's disease at their home in San Francisco, California, on December 26, 2012, at the age of 80.