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Sandy Smolan is a feature, television and documentary director. ==Early career== Mr. Smolan is an award-winning director whose work spans features, documentaries, television, and commercials. His critically acclaimed debut feature film 'Rachel River"was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and took awards for Best Cinematography and a Special Jury Prize for actress Viveca Lindfors. Smolan began his career directing documentaries. He directed "The Maghreb Journals", when he was 20, shot over five-months in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. He worked with Morley Safer and Charles Kuralt on two specials for CBS News and worked with Jim Brown on the feature release of "The Weavers: Wasn't That A Time". He produced numerous programs for PBS, including several award-winning shorts, several of the "Day In The Life' series of documentaries and the political themed "Sanctuary". He was nominated for Best Director for the Emmy Award-winning "Taking A Stand" for ABC with Betty Buckley. His television movies include "The Last Soldier" for HBO, the mini-series "Beach Girls" with Rob Lowe and Julia Ormond for Lifetime, and "A Place To Be" for CBS. He directed the acclaimed pilot for the CBS series "Middle Ages" and had directed over fifty network and cable episodic series, beginning with "LA LAW" and continuing with dozens of other prime-time dramas including "Northern Exposure", "Brooklyn Bridge", "Picket Fences", "Ally McBeal", "The District", "ED", "Dawson's Creek", "Everwood", "Chicago Hope", "The OC" and "Brothers and Sisters." He is one of the leading directors creating original programming for the web and recently directed the ten-part series "In Gayle We Trust" for NBC.com and the web series "First Day" for Alloy Entertainment, winner of a 2010 Advertising Age Media Vanguard Award. Smolan's documentary "12 Stones", about the transformation of a group of illiterate women in southern Nepal recently won the Jury Prize for Best Short Documentary at the Tallahassee and Newport Beach Film Festivals. He has also produced and directed many other documentaries, including films for The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, HP, Cisco, Intel and SAP. His most recent documentary, "The Human Face of Big Data", won the Jury Prize for Best Cinematography at The Boston International Film Festival and was selected to be part of the American Film Showcase, the major film diplomacy program of U.S. Department of State. Mr. Smolan was a featured speaker at the 2010 EG Conference in Monterey, California, the 2010 INK Conference in Association with TED, in Lavasa, India and he was an Associate Professor at The USC School of Cinematic Arts. 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「Sandy Smolan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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