John Douglas
- Profesión
- Dirección
- Nacimiento
- 13 de julio de 1938
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
- Fallecimiento
- 25 de enero de 2022
Biografía
John Douglas was an American filmmaker, photographer visual artist, and activist born on July 13, 1938 in Lake Forest, Illinois. He attended Harvard University for about year, then Studied art at Boston University while working as a painter. In 1961, he was drafted into the United States Army. He subsequentaly bought a farm in Putney, Vermont. In 1967, he met Robert Kramer and joined the activist filmmaking collective Newsreel. That same year, he and Tom Griffinco-directed Strike City, a documentary following plantation workers striking for a livable wage in Mississippi. In 1969, he traveled to Hanoi, North Vietnam, and filmed The People's War. He later co-directed Milestones with Robert Kramer. In 1975, Milestones won the Critics’ Choice at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1981, he moved to Charlotte, Vermont. In 1983, he co-directed Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us, which documented the new Grenadian democracy under Maurice Bishop. He died on January 25, 2022.
Películas con John Douglas
- The Glacier Film 1971
- The Naked Hitch-hiker 2006
Películas dirigidas por John Douglas
- Milestones 1975 · ★ 7.2
- The People's War 1970 · ★ 7.0
- Summer '68 (Newsreel #505) 1969 · ★ 10.0
- Strike City 1967
- Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us 1983
- RIFF 1&2 2007
- The Glacier Film 1971
- Cecil 2011
- Free Farm 1970
- The Whitehouse 2000