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Richard Rowley Biography

Profession
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Fast Facts

  • Co-founded the Independent Media Center in 1999
  • Made his directorial debut with the 1999 documentary Zapatista
  • Has been a Pulitzer Fellow, a Jerome Foundation Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow and a Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow
  • Co-founded non-profit award-winning media collective Big Noise Films, which is based in New York and dedicated to producing beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images
  • Has directed, produced and filmed dozens of television documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, Canal +, PBS, CNN International, Al Jazeera and many others

Awards

  • 2013Sundance Film Festival-Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary: winner
  • 2013Oscar-Best Documentary (Feature): nominated