Sam Green

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Sam Green

Sam Green is a film director from San Francisco , USA. He specialized in documentaries .

His film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Oscar in 2004.

Life

Green grew up in East Lansing , Michigan . He received his degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied documentary filmmaking with Marlon Riggs . He currently teaches film studies at the Art Institute, San Francisco and at the University of San Francisco.

Movies

The Rainbow Man / John 3:16 portrayed the life of roles Stewart , who became famous during the 1970s for wearing a rainbow-colored wig at thousands of televised sporting events. The film was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997.

His best-known feature film, The Weather Underground , showed the group of young radicals of the same name who wanted to exterminate the American government by force in the late 1960s and 1970s. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003 and was nominated for the American Film Academy Award in the documentary category.

His latest documentary, Utopia in four movements from 2010, was shown twice at the Sundance Film Festival in the “New Frontier” category.

Filmography

  • 1997: The Rainbow Man / John 3:16
  • 1999: The Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie
  • 2000: Pie Fight '69
  • 2003: The Weather Underground
  • 2004: N-Judah 5:30
  • 2006: Lot 63, Grave C
  • 2008: Clear Glasses
  • 2009: Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall (co-director with Carrie Lozano)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film-maker screens "The Weather Underground" . newsroom.ucr.edu. January 25, 2005. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ 2009 Sundance Festival catalog ( Memento from April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Green, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century