Carroll Ballard

Carroll Ballard ( born October 14, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director. He grew up at Lake Tahoe and spent his military service as a cameraman.

Career

He began making documentaries for American intelligence agencies: Beyond This Winter's Wheat (1965) and Harvest ( 1966); the latter was nominated for an Oscar. 1996 was the documentaries The Perils of Priscilla and 1970 Rodeo.

In George Lucas ' Star Wars, he was second unit director and responsible for several desert scenes. 1979 offered him Francis Ford Coppola, a former fellow student of the University of California (UCLA ) to lead The Black Stallion directed the film adaptation of Walter Farley's book. It was the adventure film The Black Stallion.

In 1983, Never Cry Wolf ( Never Cry Wolf), a film about a scientist who lives with polar wolves. In 1986, he filmed Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and 1992 wind, a sailing movie about the dream of winning the America 's Cup.

In 1996 Amy and the wild geese, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography. The film tells the story of a thirteen- year-old girl that a flock of wild geese teach flying. The film was known among other things, by the breathtaking shots of flying wild geese, recorded with an ultra-light airplane.

Ballard's last film is Duma (2005), a film about the friendship of a South African boy with an orphaned cheetah.

In most of Ballard's films are about people and their relationship to nature. The often poetic films work through their imagery, as well as through the dialogues.