She was nominated for the Academy Award for Daughter from Danang, and The Barber of Birmingham.

[1] Daughter from Danang also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

Interested in photography, she joined Newsreel, an activist film collective in New York, where she decided to pursue filmmaking professionally.

In addition to Daughter From Danang, Dolgin's notable credits include Cuba Va about Cuban youth after the revolution, and Summer of Love, about San Francisco in the summer of 1967.

[8] Her final project, a documentary film project on one of the unsung figures of the civil rights movement entitled The Barber of Birmingham was completed posthumously, co-directed and produced with still photographer Robin Fryday.