Freida Lee Mock

in 2007) a documentary feature about playwright Tony Kushner, Bird by Bird with Anne (1999; which screened again on the PBS TV show Independent Lens in 2003) about author Anne Lamott, Return with Honor (1998; which screened again on the TV show The American Experience in 2000), Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994), and the documentary shorts Lt. Watada (2011), Sing!

(2001; about a Los Angeles community children's choir and which was also an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short Film in 2002[4]), and various episodes of the TV show Screenwriters: Words Into Image in 1982, including episodes on the screenwriters Robert Towne, Carl Foreman, Neil Simon, Eleanor Perry, Paul Mazursky and William Goldman, all done in 1982 (the series was also a Primetime Emmy Award nominee for Best Series).

Early in her career, Mock produced episodes of the TV show National Geographic Specials and Untamed Frontier.

[8] She also produced the Lillian Gish: The Actor's Life for Me (which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Information Special in 1989).

", but other prominent critics such as Janet Maslin maintained that while Maya Lin was a good film it was clearly outshone by documentaries such as Hoop Dreams and Crumb which were passed up for nomination.