Carl Fick
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Carl Fick is the director of several documentaries including the Cannes
award-winning A Day in the Death of Donny B
and the author of two novels, The Danziger Transcript and A Disturbance in Paris. The Danziger Transcript was published in hardcover by Putnam in 1971, and in mass market paperback by Dell in 1974. He also co-authored or ghost-wrote From Mexico with Death with Jose Luis Guzman, published in 1977 by Zebra. A Disturbance in Paris was published by Little, Brown in 1982.
He attended Cornell University
, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While an undergraduate, he wrote a weekly column for the Trumansburg Leader.
After graduating, he went to work for Collier's magazine as a staff writer. But then the US entered WWII, and Fick went to serve in England in the US Army Air Corps.
novel, A Shadow in the Wild. He produced and directed several documentary films, one of which won prizes at many film festivals in 1969. Its title is A Day in the Death of Donny B
, and it is available from several sources to be viewed streaming online for free. According to many reviewers on these sites, it is one of the best anti-drug movies ever made.
His most recent novel was in 1982, A Disturbance in Paris, which was widely reviewed, although with mixed opinions on the parts of critics. Both Danziger Transcript and Disturbance in Paris have storylines and main characters that reflect Fick's long years of involvement with journalism and writing, as well as filmmaking and scriptwriting.
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
award-winning A Day in the Death of Donny B
A Day in the Death of Donny B
A Day in the Death of Donny B is a 1969 American short docudrama written and directed by Carl Fick and shot in cinéma-vérité style. Mostly considered an anti-drug film, it was made for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
and the author of two novels, The Danziger Transcript and A Disturbance in Paris. The Danziger Transcript was published in hardcover by Putnam in 1971, and in mass market paperback by Dell in 1974. He also co-authored or ghost-wrote From Mexico with Death with Jose Luis Guzman, published in 1977 by Zebra. A Disturbance in Paris was published by Little, Brown in 1982.
He attended Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, graduating in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While an undergraduate, he wrote a weekly column for the Trumansburg Leader.
After graduating, he went to work for Collier's magazine as a staff writer. But then the US entered WWII, and Fick went to serve in England in the US Army Air Corps.
Career as filmmaker
After the war ended, Fick returned to the US and got involved in making movies, in addition to continuing to write for magazines. He wrote scripts for several television and film productions, including a conversion of the Whit MastersonWhit Masterson
Whit Masterson is a pen name for a partnership of two authors, Robert Allison “Bob” Wade and H. Bill Miller . The two also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Wade Miller and Will Daemer....
novel, A Shadow in the Wild. He produced and directed several documentary films, one of which won prizes at many film festivals in 1969. Its title is A Day in the Death of Donny B
A Day in the Death of Donny B
A Day in the Death of Donny B is a 1969 American short docudrama written and directed by Carl Fick and shot in cinéma-vérité style. Mostly considered an anti-drug film, it was made for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...
, and it is available from several sources to be viewed streaming online for free. According to many reviewers on these sites, it is one of the best anti-drug movies ever made.
Career as writer
Then Fick went on to write a novel, The Danziger Transcript. It was successful and was even turned into a two-act play by Robert Bressard.His most recent novel was in 1982, A Disturbance in Paris, which was widely reviewed, although with mixed opinions on the parts of critics. Both Danziger Transcript and Disturbance in Paris have storylines and main characters that reflect Fick's long years of involvement with journalism and writing, as well as filmmaking and scriptwriting.