About

Known credits:
16
Birthday:
1942-03-07
Place of birth:
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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John Hanson

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1942 and raised in McClusky, North Dakota, Hanson graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, received his B.A. from Carleton College, and did postgraduate studies in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He began his career in film, going on to direct the motion pictures Northern Lights, Wildrose, and Shimmer, and numerous film, video and television documentaries. His films have been shown at film festivals around the world, including Venice, Berlin, London, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Sundance and Cannes, where Northern Lights won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature of 1979. In addition to many other film awards, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northland College. He is past chair and current board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He was a founding member of Cine Manifest, a seminal independent film collective in San Francisco and the Independent Feature Project. He lives in Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Known for

Acting
2006 Cine Manifest Actor Self 59
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1980 Mafia on the Bounty Actor Bruce 59
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Directing
1993 Shimmer Directing Director 59
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1984 Wildrose Directing Director N/A
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1980 Survivor Directing Director N/A
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1980 Rebel Earth Directing Director N/A
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1978 Northern Lights Directing Director 59
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1977 Prairie Fire Directing Director N/A
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Traveling Light Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1984 Wildrose Writing Writer N/A
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1978 Northern Lights Writing Writer 59
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Production
1978 Northern Lights Production Producer 59
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1971 Secrets Production Producer 58
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Traveling Light Production Producer N/A
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Editing
1978 Northern Lights Editing Editor 59
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1976 Baker's Hawk Editing Editor 59
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