Dick Fontaine

Dick Fontaine is an English documentary filmmaker, currently (as of 2006^[update]) head of documentary direction at the National Film and Television School (UK).^[1]

Fontaine was one of the founders of Granada Television's World in Action series. He has made numerous films on African American music and other closely related topics, including Beat This: A Hip-Hop History (1984)^[1] and Bombin' (1988).^[2] In all, he has made over 40 documentaries.^[3]

By his wife, the African American actress Pat Hartley (who appeared in several Andy Warhol films, as well as Rainbow Bridge and Absolute Beginners), he is the father of writer, music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine.^[4]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Beat This: a Hip Hop History screening at Saddlers Wells, www.britishhiphop.co.uk, , 12 April 2006. Accessed online 4 March 2007.
2. ^ PAST: Black World TV: Rap & Hip-Hop, Blackworld, British Film Institute. Accessed online 4 March 2007.
3. ^ Dick Fontaine at the Internet Movie Database Accessed online 4 March 2007.
4. ^ Larry Getlen, "A Better Vibe", Wesleyan (Wesleyan University alumni magazine), Issue IV 2006, 28–32. p. 28.

External links

• Dick Fontaine at the Internet Movie Database
• An introduction of documentary film by Dick Fontaine (in traditional Chinese, written by Shih-Lun CHANG)

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