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Lawrence Hott

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Lawrence Hott
Hott on production in the Everglades working on the film John James Audubon
Hott on production in the Everglades working on the film John James Audubon
Born (1950-10-06) 6 October 1950 (age 74)
New York, U.S.
OccupationDocumentary Filmmaker
Website
www.florentinefilms.org

Lawrence "Larry" Hott is an American academic and documentary filmmaker.

Hott is a co-founding partner of Florentine Films, joining Ken Burns, Roger Sherman and Buddy Squires in documentary production in 1978.[1][2] He has produced and directed documentary films for PBS, the Library of American Landscape History, the American Antiquarian Society and others. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award,[3] received a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and five blue ribbons from the American Film Festival.[1] Hott has taught courses in the University Without Walls program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[4]

Hott is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[5] Hott has been a Fulbright Program Fellow in both Vietnam and Great Britain.[6]

Filmography

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  • The Old Quabbin Valley 1982
  • The Garden of Eden 1983
  • The Adirondacks 1986
  • Sentimental Women Need Not Apply 1988
  • The Wilderness Idea 1989
  • Wild by Law 1991
  • Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America 1992
  • Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish 1994
  • Defending Everybody: The Story of the ACLU 1998
  • The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America
  • The Boyhood Of John Muir 1998
  • Divided Highways 1998
  • Writing Alone and With Others
  • Ohio: 200 Years
  • Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival
  • The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced 2002
  • John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature 2006
  • Niagara Falls 2006
  • On Thin Ice
  • Through Deaf Eyes 2006
  • The American Antiquarian Society
  • Library of American Landscape History
  • The Return of the Cuyahoga
  • Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
  • Rising Voices 2014
  • Scitech Band: Pride of Springfield 2017
  • The Warrior Tradition 2019
  • The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights 2023

References

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  1. ^ a b Serreze, Mary (November 14, 2017). "Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott to teach documentary workshop in Northampton". Springfield Republican. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Edgerton, G. (2016). Ken Burns's America: Packaging the Past for Television. Springer. p. 55. ISBN 978-1137054821.
  3. ^ "1992 Oscars". 1992 Oscars Academy of Motion Pictures. AMPAS.
  4. ^ Pfarrer, Steve (March 16, 2017). "Lights, camera, action: Veteran documentarian leads class on filmmaking". Daily Hampshire Gazette. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  5. ^ "UWW Instructors". University Without Walls. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  6. ^ Robbins, Carolyn (March 24, 2015). "Florentine Films' Larry Hott wins Fulbright to teach craft in Vietnam". Masslive.com. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
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