Immy Humes

Immy Humes is an American documentary filmmaker and television producer. Nominated for an Academy Award for a documentary short in 1991, Humes has taught filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, Brooklyn Polytechnic and City College of New York. Humes continues to make independent documentaries about contemporary American life, recently completing a six-part series on chronic unemployment for Salon.

Immy Humes was born in New York City, one of four daughters born to Anna Lou Elianoff and writer Harold L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review. The younger Humes graduated with honors from Harvard University in the field of Social Studies, and commenced a media career in filmmaking, interning at Boston's WGBH-TV public television station.

After working in television for several years, Humes directed A Little Vicious, a short documentary film concerning the rehabilitation of a dog who had been sentenced to death for biting. Narrated by actor Kevin Bacon, this "offbeat documentary" was lauded by the reviewer for the New York Times as paying "rewarding attention to the little peculiarities of all involved." The film was nominated for the 1992 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).

Humes returned to television as a segment producer for Michael Moore's short-lived TV Nation series. In 1995 Humes released Lizzie Borden Hash & Rehash, a documentary short drawing on the strange fascination held by some members of society for Lizzie Borden, the Massachusetts woman accused but not convicted of killing her parents in 1892.

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