Gary Hawkins is an

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born and raised in

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. Hawkins has written and directed six films, including ''The Rough South of

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'', which won an Emmy and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Gold Award in 1992, and ''The Rough South of Larry Brown'', which was picked by

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as one of Thirteen Essential Southern Documentaries and was reviewed by Variety as a “beautifully conceived documentary film.” Hawkins’s fiction screenplay ''DownTime'' was selected by The Sundance Institute for the Writer’s Lab in the winter of 2000. Hawkins is a former a member of the directing faculty at the

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. he was a visiting professor at

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, teaching documentary film.

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Larry Brown (in focus) and Gary Hawkins (foreground) on the set of ''The Rough South of Larry Brown''
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