Saul Landau
Saul Landau was born in The Bronx, New York, United States on January 15th, 1936 and is the American Journalist. At the age of 77, Saul Landau biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Landau authored 14 books, produced and directed over 50 documentary films, and wrote editorial columns including for the Huffington Post
He frequently appeared on radio and TV shows.
Gore Vidal said, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from."
Landau was a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
He received an Emmy for his film Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980), which he co-directed with Jack Willis, with cinematography by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime" for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director Orlando Letelier and their colleague and friend Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. He received the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights and also received the Bernado O'Higgins award.
In the early 1960s, he was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and wrote the play "The Minstrel Show." At that time he was also working as a film distributor.
Landau donated his Latin American-related films and papers to the University of California, Riverside Libraries in 2005.
- Bernardo O'Higgins Award for Human Rights
- Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award
- George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting
- Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage (2013)
- Emmy Award
- Roxie Award for Best Activist Video
- Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award
- Mannheim Film Festival: Critics' First Prize
- Ann Arbor Film Festival First Prize
- Berlin Film Festival First Prize
- Best Director Award First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival
- Golden Apple Award
- Best Picture North Carolina Smoky Mountain Film Festival
- Edgar Allan Poe Award, for "Assassination on Embassy Row"