Ross McElwee (born July 21, 1947) is an American documentary filmmaker known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort. Many cultural aspects of his Southern upbringing are present in his humorous and often self-deprecating films. Other themes include personal relationships, parody, failure, introspection, and historic parallelism. He has been a major contributor to the cinéma vérité movement. He received the Career Award at the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
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