Sam Green
Sam Green is a film director from San Francisco, USA. He specialized in documentaries.
His film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Oscar in 2004. His latest film Utopia in Four Movements covered in detail the international language Esperanto.
Life
Green grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. He received his journalism Dimplom of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied documentary nature with Marlon Riggs. He currently teaches film studies at the Art Institute, San Francisco and the University of San Francisco.
Movies
The Rainbow Man / John 3:16 represented the life of rollers Stewart, who became famous during the 1970s because he was wearing a rainbow-colored wig at thousands of televised sporting events. The film was first shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997.
His best known feature film The Weather Underground was the same group of young radicals, which force the American government wanted to wipe out the end of the 1960s and 1970s during the years. The premiere of the film took place in 2003 at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the award of the American Film Academy in the category of documentaries.
His latest documentary, Utopia in four movements of 2010, was shown twice at the Sundance Film Festival in the category " New Frontier".