John Hanson

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Born in St Paul Minnesota in 1942 and raised in McClusky North Dakota Hanson graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy received his BA from Carleton College and did postgraduate studies in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design He began his career in film going on to direct the motion pictures Northern Lights Wildrose and Shimmer and numerous film video and television documentaries His films have been shown at film festivals around the world including Venice Berlin London Toronto New York Chicago Sundance and Cannes where Northern Lights won the Caméra dOr award at the Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature of 1979 In addition to many other film awards he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northland College He is past chair and current board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council He was a founding member of Cine Manifest a seminal independent film collective in San Francisco and the Independent Feature Project He lives in Bayfield Wisconsin