Peter Werner, Emmy-nominated TV director who won a Best Short Film Oscar in 1977, died suddenly this morning in Wilmington, Nc from heart complications following a torn aorta. He was 76.
Born in New York City in January 1947, Werner graduated with Masters degrees in education and documentary filmmaking. He started off as a Vista Volunteer in downtown Detroit before co-founding a Quaker high school in Deerfield, Ma. While teaching in Vermont, he met Frances Flaherty, widow of Robert Flaherty, known as the father of the documentary film.
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Born in New York City in January 1947, Werner graduated with Masters degrees in education and documentary filmmaking. He started off as a Vista Volunteer in downtown Detroit before co-founding a Quaker high school in Deerfield, Ma. While teaching in Vermont, he met Frances Flaherty, widow of Robert Flaherty, known as the father of the documentary film.
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She became Werner’s friend and mentor, and he made a documentary about her that aired on PBS. It was produced by Werner’s younger brother, Tom Werner,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Above: Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida's Strike Anywhere.
This is the second of two reports on the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar.
Fifty-five years after Frances Flaherty held the inaugural iteration of the Robert Flaherty Seminar on her farm in Vermont, the annual gathering of filmmakers, critics, scholars, and programmers sustains its reputation for intense programming schedules and volatile debate. With an itinerary as relentless as it is rewarding—six-plus hours of screenings per day, and several discussions each lasting an hour or more—the Flaherty's seminarians have a famous tendency to get contentious, especially around the midway mark when the over-saturation of images, lack of sleep, and low ebb of caffeine combine to set everyone on edge. And in spite of Frances's frequently invoked dictum of "non-preconception," tensions inevitably mount among participants in the throes of a program of films that remain unannounced until the projector starts rolling.
Midweek into the 56th Flaherty Seminar,...
This is the second of two reports on the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar.
Fifty-five years after Frances Flaherty held the inaugural iteration of the Robert Flaherty Seminar on her farm in Vermont, the annual gathering of filmmakers, critics, scholars, and programmers sustains its reputation for intense programming schedules and volatile debate. With an itinerary as relentless as it is rewarding—six-plus hours of screenings per day, and several discussions each lasting an hour or more—the Flaherty's seminarians have a famous tendency to get contentious, especially around the midway mark when the over-saturation of images, lack of sleep, and low ebb of caffeine combine to set everyone on edge. And in spite of Frances's frequently invoked dictum of "non-preconception," tensions inevitably mount among participants in the throes of a program of films that remain unannounced until the projector starts rolling.
Midweek into the 56th Flaherty Seminar,...
- 7/24/2010
- MUBI
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