- James Moll
James Moll is an
Academy Award winning andEmmy Award winningfilm director andproducer .His company, Allentown Productions, has been based at
Universal Studios since 1994, primarily producing film and television projects focused on stories ofnon-fiction .Moll graduated from the
USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1987.He began his professional career as an
intern reading scripts forfilm producer Lauren Shuler Donner , who later hired him as an assistant to French writer-directorFrancis Veber for Veber’s American remake of "“Les Fugitifs”" ("Three Fugitives ").Moll is a member of the
Directors Guild of America , theAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences , theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , and serves on the Executive Committee of the Documentary Branch of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .Career
Moll is director and producer of the 2007 feature-length documentary "
Running the Sahara " about three men who ran 4,300 miles across theSahara desert fromSenegal toEgypt .Matt Damon is theexecutive producer of the film, which promotes theH2O Africa Foundation , co-founded by Damon to raise awareness of clean water initiatives inAfrica .He directed and produced the feature-length documentary "Price for Peace", which premiered
prime time onNBC on Memorial Day 2002, hosted byTom Brokaw . The late authorStephen Ambrose andSteven Spielberg are theexecutive producers . The film focuses on America’s involvement in thePacific Theater of Operations during WWII. It was produced in collaboration withDreamWorks and theNational World War II Museum inNew Orleans .In March 1999, James Moll received the
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing "The Last Days ".Steven Spielberg isexecutive producer of the film, which chronicles the lives of fiveHungarian Jews during theHolocaust .Moll is Founding Executive Director of the
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education (also known as the Shoah Foundation), having established thenon-profit organization with June Beallor in 1994 forSteven Spielberg . Moll and Beallor ran the day-to-day operations the Shoah Foundation from its inception in 1994 until 1998, and later worked with the foundation on the production of documentaries. The goal of the Shoah Foundation was to collect tens of thousands of videotaped testimonies from survivors of theHolocaust around the world. Within five years, the number of testimonies in thearchive was over 52,000, in thirty-two languages.Selected Film Directing Credits
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Running the Sahara " (2007)
"Inheritance" (2006)
"Price for Peace" (2002)
"The Last Days " (1998)Selected Producing Credits – Film & Television
"Going Postal" (2008) (Producer)
"Running the Sahara " (2007) (Producer)
"Inheritance" (2006) (Producer)
"Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed American: Massacre at Mystic" (2006) (Producer)
"The Four Chaplains: Sacrifice at Sea" (2004) (Producer)
"A Remarkable Promise" (2004) (Producer)
"Voices from the List" (2004) (Producer)
"Burma Bridge Busters" (2003) (Producer)
"Price for Peace" (2002) (Producer)
"Broken Silence" (2002 – TV Mini Series) (Producer)
"The Lost Children of Berlin" (1997) (Producer)
"Survivors of the Holocaust" (1996 – Emmy Winner) (Producer)
"Out on a Limb " (1992) (Associate Producer)External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002224/ James Moll at IMDB]
* [http://www.allentownproductions.com Production Company Website]
* [http://www.runningthesahara.com Running the Sahara Website]
* [http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2008/inheritance/preview.html POV Website for “Inheritance”]
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