Frederick Marx

Naissance

31 octobre 1955

• Producteur
• Réalisateur
• Scénariste

Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, director, writer, and editor with over 45 years in the film industry. He gained international recognition for co-writing and editing the documentary Hoop Dreams (1994), which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival. The film was named Best Film of the Year by critic Roger Ebert and was later added to the U.S. Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. Marx was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year in 1994, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995, and was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. He is the founder of Warrior Films, a nonprofit production company based in Oakland, California, dedicated to creating films that address social issues and promote healing and transformation.