Career
Saul Landau has written 14 books produced and directed over 50 documentary films and writes editorial columns posted on his blog and in magazines and journals including the Huffington Post
Landau is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. and a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
His academic career includes serving as Director of Digital Media Programs and Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at Cal Poly Pomona,. Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Professor at American University,
A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate, Landau donated his papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
He received an Emmy for his film produced with filmmaker Haskell Wexler, Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980); the Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime" for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director, Orlando Letelier and their colleague and friend Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. He was awarded Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights as well as the Bernado O'Higgins award.
In the early 1960s he was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and wrote the play the Minstrel Show.
He frequently appears on radio and TV shows.
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