Ross McElwee
Birthday: 1947-07-21
Place of Birth: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Biography: Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, and Harvard professor, known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort. McElwee is a 1971 graduate of Brown University, and received his MS from MIT in 1977. He received the Career Award at the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Movies
Something to Do with the Wall
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniver...
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Sherman's March
Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march o...
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Photographic Memory
Distressed over his teenaged son's addiction to the Internet and fearful that the developing boy has...
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Time Indefinite
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies,...
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Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On?
In Charleen, documentarian Ross McElwee looks at the life of a North Carolina poet and teacher who a...
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Six O'Clock News
Filmmaker Ross McElwee trails characters whose stories have been fodder for television news and take...
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Backyard
Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his famil...
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Bright Leaves
Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern tradi...
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Remake
The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work....
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismi...
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