Saul Landau
Encyclopedia
Saul Landau is journalist, filmmaker, and commentator. He is Professor Emeritus at California State University
, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies
.
, Director of Digital Media Programs and Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at Cal Poly Pomona
, and Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate, Landau donated his papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Landau has been a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies
(IPS) in Washington, D.C.
, for twenty-seven years, and he is also a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute
in Amsterdam
.
In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
He received an Emmy for his film produced with filmmaker Haskell Wexler
, Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
(1980); the Edgar Allan Poe Award 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 was awarded Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights as well as the Bernado O'Higgins award. He was also one of the earliest members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe
.
California State University
The California State University is a public university system in the state of California. It is one of three public higher education systems in the state, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the...
, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies is a left-wing think tank based in Washington, D.C..It has been directed by John Cavanagh since 1998- History :...
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Career
His academic career includes being Professor at American UniversityAmerican University
American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
, Director of Digital Media Programs and Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at Cal Poly Pomona
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, or Cal Poly Pomona, is a public university located in Pomona, California, United States...
, and Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate, Landau donated his papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
Landau has been a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Policy Studies is a left-wing think tank based in Washington, D.C..It has been directed by John Cavanagh since 1998- History :...
(IPS) in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, for twenty-seven years, and he is also a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute
Transnational Institute
Transnational Institute is an international think tank for progressive politics. It was established in 1973 in Amsterdam and serves as a network for scholars and activists...
in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
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In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
He received an Emmy for his film produced with filmmaker Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.-Early life and education:Wexler was born to a Jewish...
, Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang is a 1980 political documentary film produced and directed by Jack Willis and Saul Landau, written by Jack Willis and Penny Bernstein, narrated by Penny Bernstein with cinematography by Zack Krieger and Haskell Wexler....
(1980); the Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime" for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges
John Dinges
John Dinges was special correspondent for Time, Washington Post and ABC Radio in Chile. With a group of Chilean journalists, he cofounded the Chilean magazine APSI...
; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director, Orlando Letelier
Orlando Letelier
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, Socialist politician and diplomat during the presidency of Socialist President Salvador Allende...
and their colleague and friend Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. He was awarded Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights as well as the Bernado O'Higgins award. He was also one of the earliest members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe
San Francisco Mime Troupe
The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a theatre of political satire which performs free shows in various parks in the San Francisco Bay Area and around California. The Troupe does not, however, perform silent mime, but each year creates an original musical comedy that combines aspects of Commedia...
.
Films
Saul Landau's films are distributed by Round World Productions. His 1968 film "Fidel" is distributed by Microcinema.- “WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE -- and other stories of globalization”
- Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2004)
- Iraq: Voices From the Street (September 2002)
- Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (1999) - A documentary about the corporate globalization on the US-Mexican border.
- The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (1996)
- Papakolea (1993)
- Report from Iraq (1991)
- The Uncompromising Revolution (1988)
- Target Nicaragua. Inside a Covert War (1983)
- Quest for Power (1983)
- Report from Beirut (1982)
- Steppin' (1980) - A documentary about Michael ManleyMichael ManleyMichael Norman Manley ON OCC was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica . Manley was a democratic socialist....
on his tour in Jamaica, during election time. - Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear GangPaul Jacobs and the Nuclear GangPaul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang is a 1980 political documentary film produced and directed by Jack Willis and Saul Landau, written by Jack Willis and Penny Bernstein, narrated by Penny Bernstein with cinematography by Zack Krieger and Haskell Wexler....
(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. 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. - 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.
- Bill Moyer's CBS report on CIA and Cuba (1977)
- Land of My Birth (1976) - The campaign film for Michael Manley in Jamaica.
- 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.
- Song for Dead Warriors (1974) -A documentary about the Wounded Knee occupation 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)
- Robert Wall: Ex-FBI Agent (1972)
- The Jail (1972)
- Zombies in a House of Madness (1972) - Shot in the San Francisco jail.
- Que Hacer¡Qué hacer!¡Qué hacer! is a 1970 Chilean drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz, Nina Serrano and Saul Landau.-Cast:* Sandra Archer - Suzanne McCloud* Aníbal Reyna - Simon Vallejo* Richard Stahl - Martin Scott Bradford* Luis Alarcón - Osvaldo Alarcón...
/What is to be Done?(1971) - Saul Landau, Raul Ruis, Nina Serrano. - Conversation with Allende (1971)
- Brazil: Report on Torture (1971)
- Fidel (1968)
- From Protest to Resistance (1968)
- Losing just the same (1966)
Books
- A Bush and Botox World, AK PressAK PressAK Press is a worker-managed independent publisher and book distributor that specialises in radical left and anarchist literature. It is collectively owned and operated.-History:...
, 2007 - with Gore VidalGore VidalGore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...
. In this book, he defines his position on the 2006 Cuban transfer of presidential duties2006 Cuban transfer of presidential dutiesThe 2006–2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties was a transfer of duties of the Cuban presidency from Fidel Castro to the first vice president, his brother Raúl Castro, following Fidel's operation and recovery from an undisclosed digestive illness believed to be diverticulitis...
, Cuba in the 1960s, Raúl CastroRaúl CastroRaúl Modesto Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who has been President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba since 2008; he previously exercised presidential powers in an acting capacity from 2006 to 2008...
and his opinion on the U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
concerning Cuba - The business of America: how consumers have replaced citizens and how we can reverse the trend, RoutledgeRoutledgeRoutledge is a British publishing house which has operated under a succession of company names and latterly as an academic imprint. Its origins may be traced back to the 19th-century London bookseller George Routledge...
, 2004 - The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom, Pluto PressPluto PressPluto Press is a radical, progressive, independent publisher based in London. Pluto Press specialises in "progressive, critical perspectives in politics and the social sciences", and describes itself as "one of the world’s leading radical publishers". It has published authors such as Noam Chomsky,...
, 2003 - The dangerous doctrine: national security and U.S. foreign policy, Westview PressWestview PressWestview Press is an American publishing house. It publishes textbooks and scholarly works for an academic audience.Westview was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado by Fred Praeger. The press was sold in 1991 to SCS Communications. HarperCollins acquired the company in 1995. Since 1998, it has...
, 1988 - Hot air: a radio diary, Pacifica Network News/Institute for Policy Studies, 1995 - Saul Landau, Christopher HitchensChristopher HitchensChristopher Eric Hitchens is an Anglo-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has been a columnist and literary critic at The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, and became a media fellow at the...
, Pacifica RadioPacifica RadioPacifica Radio is the oldest public radio network in the United States. It is a group of five independently operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations that is known for its progressive/liberal political orientation. It is also a program service supplying over 100 affiliated... - Assassination on Embassy Row, Pantheon BooksPantheon BooksPantheon Books is an American imprint with editorial independence that is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.The current editor-in-chief at Pantheon Books is Dan Frank.-Overview:...
, 1980 - With John Dinges. Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Non-fiction - Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century, Common Courage Press, 1998
- The guerrilla wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, St Martin's Press, 1993
- To Serve the Devil: Vol. 1 & 2, 1971 - Saul Landau and Paul Jacobs with Eve Pell
- The New Radicals, Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
, 1966 - Paul Jacobs, Saul Landau - The Bisbee deportations: class conflict and patriotism during World War I, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1959
- My Dad Was Not Hamlet, Institute for Policy Studies, 1993 - A book of poems
- They Educated the Crows, Transnational Institute, 1978 - a Transnational Institute Report on the Letelier-Moffitt Murders
Awards
- Bernardo O’Higgins Award for Human Rights
- Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award
- George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting
- First Amendment Award
- Emmy Award
- Roxie Award for Best Activist Video
- Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award
- Mannheim Film Festival: Critics' First Prize
- Ann Arbor Film Festival Fiirst Prize
- Berlin Film Festival First Prize
- Best Director Award First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival
- Golden Apple Award
- Best Picture North Carolina Smoky Mountain Film Festival
External links
- Saul Landau's website
- Saul Landau's blog
- Round World Productions distributor for Saul Landau's films
- Microcinema International DVD distributes the classic 1968 film "Fidel"
- Saul Landau's profile at the Transnational InstituteTransnational InstituteTransnational Institute is an international think tank for progressive politics. It was established in 1973 in Amsterdam and serves as a network for scholars and activists...
. Includes recent publications. - Saul Landau's page at Cal Poly Pomona
- "Emmy-winning Documentary Filmmaker to Speak at UC Riverside"
- Assistant editor for "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up"