Career
Her Emmy-award-winning films are: And the Gates Opened: Women in the Rabbinate (2005), The Eternal Light: A Historical Retrospective (2006), and Yearning to Belong (2007). On January 9, 2011, American Broadcasting Company aired her film I Believe You: Faith"s Response to Intimate Partner Violence. Gonsher Vinik"s films address social problems from faith-based perspectives.
Her 2009 film A Place Foreign All deals with the acceptance of persons with disabilities in religious communities, and her 2010 film A Peace of Bread addresses the problem of hunger in America and how faith groups are trying to help alleviate this problem in the face of diminished government assistance and increasing need.
Films written and produced by Debra Gonsher Vinik include:
Grateful, Am I, To You (1999)
To God’s Ear: Song and Music of the Jewish Liturgy (2000)
A Sacred Noise (2001)
Faith First (2002)
The Highest Commandment (2003)
Legacy of Our Ancestors: The 350th Anniversary of Jews in Early America (2004)
And the Gates Opened: Women in the Rabbinate (2005)
The Eternal Light: A Historical Retrospective (2006)
Yearning to Belong (2007)
Everyone Prays at Holy Etchmiadzin (2008)
A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities (2009)
I Believe You: Faiths’ Response to Intimate Partner Violence (2010)
A Peace of Bread: Faith, Food, and the Future (2011).
