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Deborah Goodwin is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who has written and directed features and TV shows, such as Cherrys, Vampires in Venice and Fear, A Love Story. She was born in Manchester, England, and has worked in Los Angeles and Montreal.
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- Writer, Director, Producer
- Manchester, England, UK
- Deborah Goodwin
- A Life Gone Awry and Its Aftermath
- A House of Mourning
- A Discrepancy Over Testimony
- Evidence of Ill Will?
- The Price of Going Public
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Goodwin raised her daughter, Sarah, as a single mother, mostly in Hawaii. She worked at nonprofit and educational organizations, most recently as executive director of the Kahilu Theatre in Kamuela. In 2013, she was a finalist for Hawaii Business Magazine’s “Woman of the Year” in the nonprofit category. She remembers her daughter Sarah as adventuro...
In May, DHS returned J.J. to his mother. Because of what a DHS worker later called “a procedural error,” DHS did not perform its normal supervision of Sarah and her son. In August, Sarah abandoned J.J. at a homeless shelter. He was placed again with the same foster family, who reported that he had lost weight, had a “distant stare” and slept for tw...
Another turning point in the case came in early 2018, when DHS recommended a permanent home for J.J. The agency said it had rejected Goodwin – again because of the earlier “unsuccessful” placement but also in large part because of its concerns about her ability “to promote family connections” for J.J. DHS said that Goodwin’s ex-husband, Marshall Th...
The judge noted in her decision that Perez said she bore no ill will toward Goodwin, although Perez “found her interactions with Goodwin to be frustrating” and eventually asked a supervisor to take over communicating with her. But in texts with the guardian ad litem, the person appointed by the court to represent the interests of the child, Perez r...
In the end, Goodwin’s decision to go public with her complaints worked against her. Perez testified that she was concerned about the Civil Beat article because it revealed that J.J. was in foster care and included photographs and “personal information” about him. Hiatt found this persuasive. “The court does not dispute Goodwin’s right to express” h...
Deborah Goodwin tried for six years to adopt her orphaned grandson, but a Family Court judge denied her custody and blamed her for going public with her case. She says she had no choice but to expose the system's flaws and injustice.
May 30, 2019 · Deborah Goodwin, a grieving grandmother, has been denied custody of her grandson by the state of Hawaii for nearly three years. She faces a legal battle with the Department of Human Services, which says it tries to reunite children with kin but has blocked her adoption attempts.
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Nov 1, 2019 · Deborah Goodwin, who has a high rate of asylum denial, was appointed to the Board of Immigration Appeals without probationary period. The move has raised concerns about politicized hiring at the Justice Department and the impact on immigration cases.
Jan 12, 2023 · Deborah Goodwin is a film and TV creator with credits in horror, drama and comedy. She is also a screenwriting professor, a Sundance Collab advisor and a co-creator of Hot Freeze series.
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Jan 25, 2016 · Deborah Goodwin directs and writes this film about a former gang leader who becomes a Pastor and faces a new threat. The Pastor stars Ismael Cruz Cordova, Victoria Cartagena, David Iacono and more.
