Louis Marcus HRHA (born 1936) is an Irish

documentarian A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

Early life

Louis Marcus was born to an Irish Jewish family in

Cork City Cork ( , from , meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland. It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city' ...

in 1936. His brother David Marcus (1924–2009) was a writer. Their grandfathers, Jacob Marcus and Louis Goldberg, arrived in

Cobh, County Cork Cobh ( ,), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of around 13,000 inhabitants, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's ...

in 1882, from

Akmenė Akmenė () is a city in northern Lithuania. Following the discovery of large reserves of limestone and clay in the region, in 1947 construction work began on one of the largest cement production complexes in the Baltic States. Nearby, a new town ...

(Akmian) fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire.

Career

Marcus won the

Silver Bear for Best Short Film The Silver Bear for Best Short Film is the second place in the short film competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. Awards External links Berlinale website
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for ''Fleá Ceoil'' at the 1967

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. ''

Children at Work ''Children at Work'' ( ga, Páistí ag obair) is a 1973 Irish short documentary film produced by Louis Marcus. It was nominated for an Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical me ...

'' was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are annou ...

at the

46th Academy Awards The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven. ''The Sting'' won 7 ...

(1974), while ''Conquest of Light'' was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under various names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, "Best Short Subject, One- ...

at the

48th Academy Awards The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 29, 1976, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly. This year ...

(1976). He is a member of

Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers with support from the country's Arts Council. Membership, which is by invitation from current member ...

and an honorary member of the

Royal Hibernian Academy The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823. Like many other Irish institutions, such as the RIA, the academy retained the word "Royal" after most of Ireland became in ...

Personal life

His sons

Shimmy Marcus Shimmy Marcus is an Irish filmmaker. Early life Marcus was born and raised in the Dublin suburb of Terenure, the son of Louis Marcus (filmmaker), Louis Marcus (twice Oscar nominated documentary film-maker). He was educated at Stratford Colleg ...

and Joe Marcus are also filmmakers.

References

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* Irish documentary filmmakers Documentary film producers Living people Irish documentary film directors Irish Jews Irish people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Aosdána members 1936 births Mass media people from Cork (city) 20th-century Irish Jews 21st-century Irish Jews {{Ireland-film-director-stub