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Frederick Marx
Frederick Marx is a film producer/director/writer. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. Marx achieved international fame for co-writing the film Hoop Dreams with Steve James, the director of the film. It is one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history.
Marx began his movie career as a film critic, and has worked both as a film distributor and exhibitor.
Marx graduated from the University of Illinois Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois in 1973.
Marx has a B.A. in Political Science and an MFA in filmmaking from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His interest in languages and foreign cultures is reflected in PBS' international human rights program Out of the Silence (1991), the 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 Thai feature filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
In 1993, Marx received an Emmy nomination for Higher Goals (1992) for Best Daytime Children's Special. The Unspoken (1999), Marx's first feature film, features performances from Russian actor Sergei Shnirev of the Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix.
Three of Marx's films premiered at the New York Film Festival.
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.
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.
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Frederick Marx
Frederick Marx is a film producer/director/writer. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for 1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. Marx achieved international fame for co-writing the film Hoop Dreams with Steve James, the director of the film. It is one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history.
Marx began his movie career as a film critic, and has worked both as a film distributor and exhibitor.
Marx graduated from the University of Illinois Laboratory High School in Urbana, Illinois in 1973.
Marx has a B.A. in Political Science and an MFA in filmmaking from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His interest in languages and foreign cultures is reflected in PBS' international human rights program Out of the Silence (1991), the 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 Thai feature filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
In 1993, Marx received an Emmy nomination for Higher Goals (1992) for Best Daytime Children's Special. The Unspoken (1999), Marx's first feature film, features performances from Russian actor Sergei Shnirev of the Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix.
Three of Marx's films premiered at the New York Film Festival.
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.
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.