Micki Dickoff is a writer, director, and producer of social commentary films. Her latest work, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, opened theatrically in New York and Los Angeles to critical acclaim and won numerous awards in film festivals worldwide.

Dickoff was raised and educated in Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

 and received her Master's Degree from the University of Florida in 1972. She moved to Boston and taught filmmaking at Grahm Jr. College and Emerson College. After winning an Emmy in 1987 for her AIDS documentary Too Little, Too Late, she went to Los Angeles to make dramatic films about AIDS and other social issues. Her multi-award winning AIDS drama, Mother, Mother, was made through the generosity of the Hollywood community and raised hundreds of thousand dollars for AIDS research. In 1996, she produced and directed, In the Blink of an Eye, a television movie about the death penalty and the power of friendship. Currently she is the head of Pro Bono Productions where she continues to develop documentary and narrative films about pressing social issues.

Since 1993, Dickoff has been working on a documentary on the female members of the Manson Family and has attended each parole hearing for Susan Atkins

Susan Atkins

Susan Denise Atkins was a convicted American murderer who was a member of the "Manson family", led by Charles Manson. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969...

, Patricia Krenwinkel

Patricia Krenwinkel

Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel is an American convicted killer and a former member of Charles Manson's murderous commune, known as "the Family". During her time with Manson's group, she was known by various aliases such as "Big Patty", "Yellow", and "Mary Ann Scott", but to The Family she was most...

 and Leslie Van Houten

Leslie Van Houten

Leslie Louise Van Houten is a former member of Charles Manson's "Family" who was convicted of the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.-Life with Manson:...

. Dickoff has a personal relationship with the three women. She testified at the July 16, 2008, compassionate release hearing for Susan Atkins

Susan Atkins

Susan Denise Atkins was a convicted American murderer who was a member of the "Manson family", led by Charles Manson. Manson and his followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California, over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969...

, asking that she be granted compassion. The film is still a work-in-progress.

Films

• In the Blink of an Eye
• Mother, Mother
• Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
• Get on Board
• Bush's Deadly Ambition
• Step By Step: A Journey of Hope
• Our Sons
• Too Little, Too Late