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The Universal Language A documentary about idealism and global utopian vision through the lens of Esperanto, the universal language created in the 19th century to end cultural conflicts.
Selected Works Film Utopia, Part 3: The Worlds Largest Shopping Mall (2009)
Lot 63, Grave C (2006) The Weather Underground (2003, co-director) Pie Fight '69 (2001) The Fabulous Stains (2000) The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997) Accomplishments Sam Greens documentary films have been featured in a number of festivals, among them Sundance, the London Film Festival, and the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival. Greens recent documentary The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His work has also received Best Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Critic's Choice Award at the Locarno Film Festival, among other honors. Green has been artist-in-residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.
Education 1993 MJ, Documentary Production, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
1989 BA, Social Science, University of Michigan, MI Web Site News April, May, June 2007 Sam Green is
the recipient of the 2007 Alpert/MacDowell Fellowship.
This award grants him a residency at the
MacDowell Colony
in January, February, March 2007 Sam Green was one of the recipients in The
Sundance Institute
Documentary Film Program’s second round of grants
for 2006.
He has been awarded funds to be used in the development of Speaking
from the Grave, an in-depth exploration of the new frontier
of forensic
anthropology and the use of science to bring about justice in countries
affected by war. October - November 2006 Sam Greens short Lot 63, Grave C was included in the traveling Black Maria Film Festival, which was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in November. The film re-examines the tragic events caught on camera at the Rolling Stones' 1970 concert at Altamont. |
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