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Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking
Widely revered as the "Dean of Documentary Filmmaking," Albert Maysles joined us as our special
guest and advisor in 2007. This year he will honor director and cinematographer Haskell Wexler with
the third annual Albert Maysles Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. Please join us for
this special conversation and clips from Haskell's work.
AWARD WINNER: HASKELL WEXLER
Haskell Wexler, two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer, was named one of the ten
most influential cinematographers in movie history. He won his Oscars in both black & white
and color, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory. He has directed over fifty
documentaries, rock videos and award-winning commercials, including The Bus, Bus Riders Union,
Introduction to the Enemy, shot in Vietnam with Jane Fonda; Interview with My Lai Veterans,
which also won an Academy Award, No Nukes with Barbara Kopple, and Who Needs Sleep, a film
about sleep deprivation and long hours in the motion picture business, which premiered at the 2006
Sundance Film Festival. In 2008 Wexler shot Sense of Wonder, an intimate and poignant reflection
of the life of pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson.
Wexler received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, plus one Emmy award, in a career
that has spanned six decades. His nominations came for his work on his first feature documentary,
The Living City; a short film T for Tumbleweed; Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest; and John Sayles' Matewan and Blaze. Moviegoers have had the pleasure of enjoying this icon of
moviemaking for over 60 years and we are honored to welcome him to Mendocino.
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LocationCrown Hall
45285 Ukiah St.
Mendocino, CA 95460
United States
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