Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a

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, where he taught history and digital media.

Education

Landau was born in

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, New York City. A graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, he also earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Landau donated his Latin American-related films and papers to the

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Libraries in 2005. He donated his early papers and films to the

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Center for Film and Television Research.

Career

Landau authored 14 books, produced and directed over 50 documentary films, and wrote editorial columns including for the ''

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''. Landau was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He frequently appeared on radio and TV shows.

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said, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from." Landau was a fellow of the

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(IPS) in Washington, D.C. and a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He received an

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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

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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.

Death

Landau died after battling

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for two years on September 9, 2013, at his home in

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. He was 77.

Films

Landau's films are distributed by Round World Productions. His 1968 film "Fidel" is distributed by Microcinema. * ''Losing just the same'' (1966) * ''Fidel'' (1968) * ''From Protest to Resistance'' (1968) * '' Que Hacer/What is to be Done?'' (1971) – Saul Landau, Raúl Ruiz, James Becket, Jaime Sierra, Nina Serrano. * ''Conversation with Allende'' (1971) * '' Brazil: A Report on Torture'' (1971) * ''Robert Wall: Ex-FBI Agent'' (1972) * ''The Jail'' (1972) * ''Zombies in a House of Madness'' (1972) – Shot in the San Francisco jail. * ''Song for Dead Warriors'' (1974) – A documentary about the

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in the spring of 1973 by Oglala Sioux Indians and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) * ''Who Shot Alexander Hamilton'' (1974) * ''Castro, Cuba and the US'' (1974) * ''Zombies in a House of Madness'' (1975) – A short film where jail house poet, Michael Beasley, reads his poetry alongside footage taken inside the San Francisco jail, in 1972. * ''Land of My Birth'' (1976) – The campaign film for Michael Manley in Jamaica. * ''Bill Moyer's CBS report on CIA and Cuba'' (1977) * ''The CIA Case Officer'' (1978) – A documentary about John Stockwell, a former CIA official who served in the CIA for 12 years, mostly in Africa and Vietnam. The film won an Emmy Award (1980), George F. Polk Award for investigative journalism on TV, Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism, and the Mannheim Film Festival first critics' prize. * '' Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang'' (1979) – A political documentary about government suppression of the health hazards of low-level radiation. Paul Jacobs died from lung cancer before the documentary was finished. His doctors believed he contracted it while he was investigating nuclear policies in 1957. Jacobs interviewed civilians and soldiers, survivors of nuclear experiments in the 50s and 60s, testing the effects of radiation. * ''Steppin (1980) – A documentary about Michael Manley on his tour in Jamaica, during election time. * ''Report from Beirut'' (1982) * ''Target Nicaragua. Inside a Covert War'' (1983) * ''Quest for Power'' (1983) * ''The Uncompromising Revolution'' (1988) * ''Report from Iraq'' (1991) * ''Papakolea'' (1993) * ''The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas'' (1996) * ''Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos'' (1999) – A documentary about the corporate globalization on the US-Mexican border. * ''Iraq: Voices From the Street'' (September 2002) * ''Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place'' (2004) * ''Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up'' (2012) * ''"WE DON'T PLAY GOLF HERE – and other stories of globalization"''

Books

* ''The Bisbee deportations: class conflict and patriotism during World War I'', University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1959 * * Landau, Saul, Jacobs, Paul, & Pell, Eve, ''To Serve the Devil, Volume 1: Natives and Slaves'' Vintage Books, 1971. * Landau, Saul, Jacobs, Paul, & Pell, Eve ''To Serve the Devil – Volume 2: Colonials and Sojourners'' Vintage Books, 1971. * * ''They Educated the Crows'', Transnational Institute, 1978 – a Transnational Institute Report on the Letelier-Moffitt Murders * * * ''My Dad Was Not Hamlet: Poems'', Institute for Policy Studies, 1993 * ''The guerrilla wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala'', St Martin's Press, 1993, * ''Hot air: a radio diary'', Pacifica Network News/Institute for Policy Studies, 1995 – Saul Landau,

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* ''Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century'', Common Courage Press, 1998 * * * - with

. In this book, he defines his position on the 2006 Cuban transfer of presidential duties, Cuba in the 1960s,

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and his opinion on the U.S. concerning Cuba * Saul Landau (2013). ''Stark in the Bronx: A Detective Novel''. CounterPunch Books.

Awards

* 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)Joe A. Callaway Awards For Civic Courage Past-Winners
''Calloway Awards'', 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2019. *

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* 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

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Smoky Mountain Film Festival *

, for "Assassination on Embassy Row"

References

External links

Saul Landau's website

Saul Landau's blog

Round World Productions, distributor for Saul Landau's films

* ttp://www.tni.org/users/saul-landau Saul Landau's profileat the Transnational Institute. Includes recent articles and essays.
Saul Landau's page at Cal Poly Pomona

"Emmy-winning Documentary Filmmaker to Speak at UC Riverside: Saul Landau Has Focused on Social Issues, Human Rights for 40 years"

"Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up"Guide to the Saul Landau Papers at the University of California, Riverside Librariea

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up: Saul Landau on U.S.-Aided Anti-Castro Militants & the Cuban 5
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