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Frederick Wiseman
Director/Editor
Legendary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has made 33 documentary films about American institutions. Among his films are High School, Welfare, Model, Central Park, Public Housing Near Death, and Domestic Violence, all of which have been broadcast on public television and screened in movie theaters around the world.
Wiseman’s theater work includes directing THE LAST LETTER at the Comédie Française in 2000, and a North American tour of the play in 2001. He directed an English-language version starring Kathleen Chalfant in New York in December 2003. Welfare: The Opera, based on his documentary film Welfare (with music by Lenny Pickett, libretto by David Slavitt and directed by Wiseman) was staged at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia in 1992 and St. Anne’s Center for Restoration and the Arts in Brooklyn in 1998.
Wiseman has received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Dan David Prize for 2003 and the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award from Human Rights Watch. He has won three Emmy Awards and three A.I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. He is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Filmography
The Garden (2004)
Domestic Violence 2 (2002)
La Dernière Lettre (THE LAST LETTER) (2002)
Domestic Violence (2001)
Belfast, Maine (1999)
Public Housing (1997)
La Comèdie-Française ou L’amour jouè (1996)
Ballet (1995)
High School II (1994)
Zoo (1993)
Aspen (1991)
Central Park (1989)
Near Death (1989)
Missile (1987)
Blind (1986)
Adjustment and Work (1986)
Deaf (1986)
Multi-Handicapped (1986)
Racetrack (1985)
The Store (1983)
Seraphita's Diary (1982)
Model (1980)
Manoeuvre (1979)
Sinai Field Mission (1978)
Canal Zone (1977)
Meat (1976)
Welfare (1975)
Primate (1974)
Juvenile Court (1973)
Essene (1972)
Basic Training (1971)
Hospital (1969)
Law and Order (1969)
High School (1968)
Titicut Follies (1967)
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Read THE LAST LETTER filmmaker Q&A >>
Frederick Wiseman responds to viewer questions about his work. Read the
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