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Nationality
American
Name
Saul Landau
Role
Journalist
Born
January 15, 1936
Bronx, New York
Alma mater
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Occupation
Journalist and Filmmaker
Died
September 9, 2013, Alameda, California, United States
Spouse
Rebecca Switzer (m. ?–2013)
Movies
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang, ¡Que hacer!
Children
Greg Landau, Valerie Landau, Marie Landau, Carmen Landau, Julia Landau
Books
A Bush & Botox World, The pre‑emptive empire, Red hot radio, Assassination on Embassy, Stark in the Bronx: A Detective
Similar People
John Dinges, Haskell Wexler, Greg Landau, Valerie Landau, Raul Ruiz
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Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. He was born in the Bronx, New York.
A graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, he also earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He donated his early papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Television Research.
Career
Landau authored 14 books, produced and directed over 50 documentary films, and wrote editorial columns including for the Huffington Post
He frequently appeared on radio and TV shows.
Gore Vidal said, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from."
During an award ceremony bestowing Landau with Medal of Friendship in 2013, Cuban diplomat Ricardo Alarcon said Saul Landau is a “a real combatant with no other weapons than his talent and intellectual integrity,”
Landau was a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
He received an Emmy for his film Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980), which he co-directed with Jack Willis, with cinematography by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime" for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director Orlando Letelier and their colleague and friend Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. He received the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights and also received the Bernado O'Higgins award.
In the early 1960s, he was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and wrote the play "The Minstrel Show." At that time he was also working as a film distributor.
Landau donated his Latin American-related films and papers to the University of California, Riverside Libraries in 2005.
Death
Landau died after battling bladder cancer for two years on September 9, 2013 at his home in Alameda, California. He was 77.
Films
Landau's films are distributed by Round World Productions. His 1968 film "Fidel" is distributed by Microcinema.
Losing just the same (1966)
Fidel (1968)
From Protest to Resistance (1968)
Que Hacer/What is to be Done? (1971) - Saul Landau, Raúl Ruiz, Jaime Sierra, Nina Serrano.
Conversation with Allende (1971)
Brazil: A Report on Torture (1971)
Robert Wall: Ex-FBI Agent (1972)
The Jail (1972)
Zombies in a House of Madness (1972) - Shot in the San Francisco jail.
Song for Dead Warriors (1974) - A documentary about the Wounded Knee occupation in the spring of 1973 by Oglala Sioux Indians and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM)
Who Shot Alexander Hamilton (1974)
Castro, Cuba and the US (1974)
Zombies in a House of Madness (1975) - A short film where jail house poet, Michael Beasley, reads his poetry alongside footage taken inside the San Francisco jail, in 1972.
Land of My Birth (1976) - The campaign film for Michael Manley in Jamaica.
Bill Moyer's CBS report on CIA and Cuba (1977)
The CIA Case Officer (1978) - A documentary about John Stockwell, a former CIA official who served in the CIA for 12 years, mostly in Africa and Vietnam. The film won an Emmy Award (1980), George F. Polk Award for investigative journalism on TV, Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism, and the Mannheim Film Festival first critics' prize.
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1979) - A political documentary about government suppression of the health hazards of low-level radiation. Paul Jacobs died from lung cancer before the documentary was finished. His doctors believed he contracted it while he was investigating nuclear policies in 1957. Jacobs interviewed civilians and soldiers, survivors of nuclear experiments in the 50s and 60s, testing the effects of radiation.
Steppin' (1980) - A documentary about Michael Manley on his tour in Jamaica, during election time.
Report from Beirut (1982)
Target Nicaragua. Inside a Covert War (1983)
Quest for Power (1983)
The Uncompromising Revolution (1988)
Report from Iraq (1991)
Papakolea (1993)
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (1996)
Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (1999) - A documentary about the corporate globalization on the US-Mexican border.
Iraq: Voices From the Street (September 2002)
Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place (2004)
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up (2012)
“WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE – and other stories of globalization”
Books
Saul Landau (2013). Stark in the Bronx. CounterPunch Books. B00E892H0A. A detective novel set in the Bronx NY.
Saul Landau (2007). A Bush & Botox World. AK Press. ISBN 978-1-904859-61-1. Retrieved August 3, 2013. - with Gore Vidal. In this book, he defines his position on the 2006 Cuban transfer of presidential duties, Cuba in the 1960s, Raúl Castro and his opinion on the U.S. concerning Cuba
Saul Landau (July 15, 2004). The Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-203-49475-2. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Saul Landau (October 20, 2003). The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom. St Martins Press. ISBN 978-0-7453-2140-0. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
The Dangerous Doctrine: National Security and U.S. Foreign Policy. Westview Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8133-7506-9. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Hot air: a radio diary, Pacifica Network News/Institute for Policy Studies, 1995 - Saul Landau, Christopher Hitchens, Pacifica Radio
John Dinges; Saul Landau (1980). Assassination on Embassy Row. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-50802-3. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century, Common Courage Press, 1998
The guerrilla wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, St Martin's Press, 1993
To Serve the Devil: Vol. 1 & 2, 1971 - Saul Landau and Paul Jacobs with Eve Pell
Paul Jacobs; Saul Landau (1966). The new radicals: a report with documents. Random House. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
The Bisbee deportations: class conflict and patriotism during World War I, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1959
My Dad Was Not Hamlet, Institute for Policy Studies, 1993 - A book of poems
They Educated the Crows, Transnational Institute, 1978 - a Transnational Institute Report on the Letelier-Moffitt Murders
Carol Kurtz; Saul Landau; Ralph Stavins (1977). Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Transnational Institute. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Paul Jacobs; Saul Landau (1971). To Serve the Devil: Natives and slaves. Random House. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Awards
Bernardo O’Higgins Award for Human Rights
Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award
George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting
First Amendment Award
Emmy Award
Roxie Award for Best Activist Video
Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award
Mannheim Film Festival: Critics' First Prize
Ann Arbor Film Festival First Prize
Berlin Film Festival First Prize
Best Director Award First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival
Golden Apple Award
Best Picture North Carolina Smoky Mountain Film Festival
Edgar Allan Poe Award, for "Assassination on Embassy Row"
