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

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, he also earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the

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. 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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''. 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

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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 Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime" for ''Assassination on Embassy Row'' (with

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; 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

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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

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Libraries in 2005.

Death

Landau died after battling

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

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. * ''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'',

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, 1993, * ''Hot air: a radio diary'', Pacifica Network News/Institute for Policy Studies, 1995 – Saul Landau, Christopher Hitchens,

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

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for Investigative Reporting *

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''Calloway Awards'', 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2019. *

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* Roxie Award for Best Activist Video *

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: Critics' First Prize *

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First Prize *

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First Prize * Best Director Award First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival *

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* Best Picture

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Smoky Mountain Film Festival * Edgar Allan Poe Award, 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

. 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

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