Judy Irving
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Judy Irving is an American filmmaker. She directed the documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, about writer Mark Bittner's relationship with a flock of wild parrots. The film won the Genesis Award for "Outstanding Documentary Feature" in 2005. She married Bittner in 2006.
A previous feature-length film, Dark Circle, won the Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1983 as well as a National Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in News and Documentary" in 1990.
Irving has a masters degree in Film & Broadcasting from Stanford University and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film in 1983.