Paul and Holly Fine made films together for almost 40 years. They both started at Channel 7 in Washington DC where Paul shot and directed and Holly edited and directed. They joined CBS in 1982 producing documentaries for CBS Reports and 60 Minutes. They have produced pieces on just about everyone who has been in the news at one time or another, including Barbra Streisand, Kirk Douglas, Ray Charles, and the opera singer Denise Graves. Their 1982 broadcast on the near assassination of Ronald Reagan, “The Saving of the President,” got them national attention. Their piece on “The Plane That Fell from the Sky,” about a mysterious nose dive of a commercial jet in which all 49 passengers and three crew members survived, won them national acclaim. The Fines’ distinctive and compassionate journalism won them a trophy case full of awards including four Peabody Awards, a Columbia Dupont Award, over 80 Emmys, and 50 other national and international citations.
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