
Person
Yasha Aginsky
Editing · Born 1994-11-22 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Documentary filmmaker and film teacher, Yasha Aginsky lives and works in San Francisco. During his career as a director and editor, his work has twice been nominated for Academy Awards (1986, Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo and 1991, Forever Activists) and the films he has produced with his wife, Carrie D'Inzillo Aginsky, have won awards in many festivals including Cine International, American Film Festival, National Educational Media Network, Silver Images in the USA and at the Bilan de film ethnographique, Paris. Since 1997, Yasha and Carrie have made Full Circle; Bratsch at Work (Rendez-Vous avec Bratsch); Wine From the Heart (Les Raisins du Coeur); Wine From the Rhone (Vins du Rhone), and Yasha has made Always Been a Rambler (produced by The Arhoolie Foundation). He was also the editor of Outsider, The Life and Art of Judith Scott (Betsy Bayha) and of Granny D Goes to Washington (Alidra Solday).
Known for

Diesel
Editor

Our Nazi
Editor

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Editor

Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
Editor
A Matter of Degrees
Additional Editing

Always Been a Rambler
Director

Banjo Tales
2012
Homemade American Music
Director
Our School
Producer

Spirit of the Land: Hawai'i: Continuing Traditions
Editor
Filmography
- 2020Always Been a RamblerDirector
- 2012Banjo Tales
- 1999Wayfinders: A Pacific OdysseyEditor
- 1991A Matter of DegreesAdditional Editing
- 1988Cowboy PoetsEditor
- 1988Educating For LifeDirector
- 1985The Mothers of Plaza de MayoEditor
- 1985DieselEditor
- 1985Spirit of the Land: Hawai'i: Continuing TraditionsEditor
- 1984Our NaziEditor
- 1981Our SchoolProducer
- 1980Homemade American MusicDirector
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