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Doug Wolens
Doug Wolens is an American documentary filmmaker, writer and producer whose documentary films have touched on various issues from logging (Butterfly) to transhumanism (The Singularity).
Wolens was raised in Chicago, Illinois. His father sold children's wear while his mother worked in an office. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1981. After graduation, Wolens considered pursuing a MFA in fiction, but his parents only gave him money for graduate school if he studied something 'worthwhile'. Wolens thus studied law at Seton Hall University Law School.
Wolens briefly gave up his creative pursuits to practice business law in New York and San Francisco, California. During this period, Wolens was involved in asbestos litigation.
After his first marriage ended, Wolens realized while practicing law that he still had an urge to write, so he applied to and was accepted at San Francisco University where he took a screenwriting class.
In 1993, Wolens became a filmmaker and his first documentary 'Happy Loving Couples' was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. In Happy Loving Couples, Wolens presents the difficulties of internal monologues of single women in big cities. Happy Loving Couples haunts the narrator by contrasting the difficulties of single women in big cities with the many images of urban locales. Wolens is noted for making Happy Loving Couples a 'personal film' which uses fictional narration as opposed to autobiographical narration.
Two other shorts followed Happy Loving Couples, 'Reversal' in 1994 and 'In Frame' in 1995.
Weed, a 1996 film written, directed and produced by Wolens, premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam before going on a forty-day United States theatrical tour. Weed is a documentary about the eight annual Cannabis Cup and in particular about Americans getting high during it. Wolens visited 56 coffeehouses and interviewed 300 people for Weed to get material for the documentary. Wolens documentary on Weed was of particular interest to him since he used to grow pot in the backyard while he was in college.
Wolens directed the documentary Butterfly. Butterfly describes Julia Hill, a rebellious, anti logging activist who lives in a redwood tree in her effort protest logging. Hill chose Wolens as the only person to document her protests. Wolens became aware of Hill's campaign during a DYI for his documentary Weed. After not being able to get the story out of his head, Wolens contacted Hill and set up the groundwork for the documentary.
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Doug Wolens
Doug Wolens is an American documentary filmmaker, writer and producer whose documentary films have touched on various issues from logging (Butterfly) to transhumanism (The Singularity).
Wolens was raised in Chicago, Illinois. His father sold children's wear while his mother worked in an office. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1981. After graduation, Wolens considered pursuing a MFA in fiction, but his parents only gave him money for graduate school if he studied something 'worthwhile'. Wolens thus studied law at Seton Hall University Law School.
Wolens briefly gave up his creative pursuits to practice business law in New York and San Francisco, California. During this period, Wolens was involved in asbestos litigation.
After his first marriage ended, Wolens realized while practicing law that he still had an urge to write, so he applied to and was accepted at San Francisco University where he took a screenwriting class.
In 1993, Wolens became a filmmaker and his first documentary 'Happy Loving Couples' was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. In Happy Loving Couples, Wolens presents the difficulties of internal monologues of single women in big cities. Happy Loving Couples haunts the narrator by contrasting the difficulties of single women in big cities with the many images of urban locales. Wolens is noted for making Happy Loving Couples a 'personal film' which uses fictional narration as opposed to autobiographical narration.
Two other shorts followed Happy Loving Couples, 'Reversal' in 1994 and 'In Frame' in 1995.
Weed, a 1996 film written, directed and produced by Wolens, premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam before going on a forty-day United States theatrical tour. Weed is a documentary about the eight annual Cannabis Cup and in particular about Americans getting high during it. Wolens visited 56 coffeehouses and interviewed 300 people for Weed to get material for the documentary. Wolens documentary on Weed was of particular interest to him since he used to grow pot in the backyard while he was in college.
Wolens directed the documentary Butterfly. Butterfly describes Julia Hill, a rebellious, anti logging activist who lives in a redwood tree in her effort protest logging. Hill chose Wolens as the only person to document her protests. Wolens became aware of Hill's campaign during a DYI for his documentary Weed. After not being able to get the story out of his head, Wolens contacted Hill and set up the groundwork for the documentary.