Saul Landau

Saul Landau is an American author, documentary filmmaker, and academic whose work has focused in large part on Latin America. Now a professor at American University, he was previously Director of Digital Media Programs and Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at Cal Poly Pomona.

Landau is noted internationally for his films and writing on domestic policy and cultural issues. He was a longtime commentator on Pacifica Radio, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 1980 Emmy. In 2007, Landau's new book "A Bush and Botox World: Travels Through Bush's America" with a foreword by Gore Vidal, was published. In this new book, he states that Cuba has been misread by the United States for more than forty-seven years. [http://www.counterpunch.org/landau08292006.html]

A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate, Landau donated his papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. [ [http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=111349&ntpid=2 reported in] "The Capital Times" of Madison, 16 December, 2006]

Career

1980 Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang

Landau has been a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C., for twenty-seven years, and he is also a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. In his university years, Landau was a student leader associated with the pro-Cuban Fair Play for Cuba Committee. [cite book | title = Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left | author = Van Gosse | year = 1993 | publisher = Verso | isbn = 0860916901]

Landau is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author. He received five awards, including an Emmy, for his film created with Oscar and Emmy-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang" (1980); the Edgar Allan Poe Award for "Assassination on Embassy Row" (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director, Orlando Letelier; and the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights.

1996 The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas

His documentary "The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas" (1996) won three awards. His latest films are "Labouring on the Border's Edge" (1999), a documentary about export processing zones on the Mexican-USA border; "Same River Twice" (1999), an award-winning English-language telenovela with head writer Alden Loveshade and director Sonia Angulo; and "Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place" (2004).

1998 Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century

His most recent book is "Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century" (Common Courage 1998), a collection of his radio commentaries. His first volume of poetry, "My Dad was not Hamlet", is due to be published in Spanish this year. He recently joined the advisory board for the Venezuela-based Latin American television station, teleSUR, which began broadcasting in July, 2005.

2007: A Bush and Botox World

In this book, he defines his position on the 2006 Transfer of duty in Cuba, Cuba in the 1960s, Raúl Castro and his opinion on the U.S. concerning Cuba.cite news|title=Washington's Ignorance|date=2006-08-29publisher=Counterpunch|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/landau08292006.html]

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External links

* [http://saullandau.com/ Saul Landau's website]
* [http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Eslandau/index.html Saul Landau's page at Cal Poly Pomona]
* [http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1349 "Emmy-winning Documentary Filmmaker to Speak at UC Riverside"]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484484/ Saul Landau at IMDB]