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Frederick Marx

Known for

Directing

Born

October 31, 1955 (age 70)

Biography

Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, director, writer, and editor with over 45 years in the film industry. He gained international recognition for co-writing and editing the documentary Hoop Dreams (1994), which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival. The film was named Best Film of the Year by critic Roger Ebert and was later added to the U.S. Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.

Marx was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year in 1994, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995, and was honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Aw...

Best known work

Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

1994
Tangled

Tangled

1997
The Unspoken

The Unspoken

1999
Journey from Zanskar

Journey from Zanskar

2010
Higher Goals

Higher Goals

1992
Surviving Home

Surviving Home

2017
House of UnAmerican Activities

House of UnAmerican Activities

1983
Dream Documentary

Dream Documentary

1981
Veterans Journey Home: On Black Mountain

Veterans Journey Home: On Black Mountain

Dreams from China

Dreams from China

1989

Filmography

  1. TBA

    Veterans Journey Home: On Black Mountain

    Director

  2. 2017

  3. 2010

    Journey from Zanskar

    Director, Screenplay

  4. 1999

    The Unspoken

    Editor, Producer, Director, Writer

  5. 1997

    Tangled

    Editor

  6. 1994

    Hoop Dreams

    Writer, Producer, Editor

  7. 1992

    Higher Goals

    Producer, Director, Writer

  8. 1989

  9. 1983

  10. 1981

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