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Frederick Marx is an Oscar and Emmy nominated producer/director. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994,〔(Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year 1994 )〕 a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow,〔(John Simon Guggenheim list of fellows )〕 and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award.〔(Frederick Marx at Donna Reed Foundation for Performing Arts )〕 Frederick Marx achieved international fame for his Oscar nominated film ''Hoop Dreams'' (1994). It is one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history.〔(Hoop Dreams at The Internet Movie Database )〕 ==Career== Frederick Marx is a producer, director, writer, and editor with 35 years in the film business, most of them as an independent filmmaker. Having worked for a time as an English and creative writing teacher, Marx began his movie career as a film critic, and has worked both as a film distributor and exhibitor. He has also traveled extensively. He's lived in Germany, China, and Hungary. He's traveled repeatedly through Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and Himalayan India. Marx graduated from the University of Illinois Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois in 1973. With a B.A. in Political Science and an MFA in filmmaking, Marx has coupled his formal education with a natural gift for languages, speaking German and some Mandarin-Chinese. His interest in languages and foreign cultures is reflected in PBS' international human rights program ''Out of the Silence'' (1991), the widely acclaimed personal essay ''Dreams from China'' (1989), and Learning Channel's ''Saving the Sphinx'' (1997). He consulted on Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi's feature ''Turtles Can Fly'' (2004) and was a teacher of renowned Thai feature filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.〔(Apichatpong Weerasethakul at The Internet Movie Database )〕 In 1993, Marx received an Emmy nomination for ''Higher Goals'' (1992) for Best Daytime Children's Special.〔(Higher Goals (1992) at The Internet Movie Database )〕 Producer, Director, and Writer for this national PBS Special, Marx directed Tim Meadows of "Saturday Night Live" fame. Accompanied by a curriculum guide, the program was later distributed for free to over 4,200 inner city schools nationwide. ''The Unspoken'' (1999), Marx's first feature film, features performances from Russian star Sergei Shnirev of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix, most known for ''Get on the Bus'', ''Bob Roberts'', ''Titus'', ''ER'', and ''The Matrix''. Three of Marx's films premiered at the New York Film Festival. Having dedicated his life to the making and promotion of independent films, Marx repeatedly returns to work with disadvantaged and misunderstood communities: people of color, abused children, the working poor, welfare recipients, prisoners, the elderly, and "at risk" youth. His films show a passion for appreciating multiculturalism and an urgent empathy for the sufferings of the disadvantaged to every subject he tackles. ''Hoop Dreams'' (1994) is the film that first interested Marx in the welfare of teenage boys. ''Boys to Men?'' (2004), distributed by Media Education Foundation, takes that as its central theme. ''Boys Become Men'', now in production, is the sequel, pinpointing initiation and mentorship as the solutions to the problems teen boys face. A hobbyist songwriter, in 1991 Marx recorded a number of his songs collectively known as ''Rolling Steel''. Two of those 11 songs are used over ''The Unspoken'' (1999) tail credits and one is used in ''Boys to Men?''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Marx」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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