Charles Carey

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Charles Carey (* before 1960) is an American scientist , film director , film producer and author who was nominated for an Oscar in 1961 for the documentary short film George Grosz 'Interregnum .

Life notes

Carey was a scientist who worked for RAND Corporation, founded in 1948, as a communications specialist, as well as for UCLA in the Department of Psychology and Public Affairs, and he was President of Educational Communications.

Carey appeared in the film field with only two works. On the one hand in 1960 with the documentary short film George Grosz 'Interregnum on the artist George Grosz and his work, which he produced together with his then wife Altina Schinasi- Carey, on the other hand with the documentary film Operation Bootstrap, made eight years later . Carey also worked closely with his wife Altina Carey on this film, a renowned visual artist who came from the Schinasi tobacco dynasty. The documentary film, which captures the economic development of a deprived neighborhood in southern Los Angeles , was part of the UCLA Festival of Preservation in 2019. The film is also about racism and its consequences and the disregard for humanity.

Carey and his wife Altina were nominated as producers for an Oscar for the short film George Grosz 'Interregnum , but it went to James Hill and the British film Giuseppina , which is set at a gas station, where Giuseppina, the gas station tenant's little daughter, is the people for can take.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1960: George Grosz 'Interregnum (documentary short film; producer)
  • 1968: Operation Bootstrap (documentary; director, producer, writer)

Award

Academy Awards 1961

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ President: Charles Carey see page ecoprojects.org (English).
  2. ↑ Operation Bootstrap see page cinema.ucla.edu (English).
personal data
SURNAME Carey, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, film producer, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1960