Saul Landau

Saul Landau is Director of Digital Media Programs at Cal Poly Pomona. He is noted internationally for his films and writing on domestic policy and cultural issues. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 1980 Emmy.

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Cal Poly Pomona - 1980 - Emmy

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Saul is a fellow of Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) http://www.ips-dc.org, and a Senior Fellow and former Director of The Transnational Institute http://www.tni.org (Amsterdam). Landau is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author. He received five awards, including an Emmy, for his film Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980); the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director, Orlando Letelier; and the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights.

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Edgar Allen Poe Award - Orlando Letelier

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A Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC for 27 years, Landau is currently the Hugh O. Bounty Chair of Applied Interdisciplinary Knowledge at California State Polytechnic Institute. His most recent book is Red Hot Radio: Sex, Violence and Politics at the End of the American Century (Common Courage 1998), and his first volume of poetry, My Dad was not Hamlet, is due to be published in Spanish this year. He recently joined the advisory board for the Venezuela-based Latin American television station, teleSUR, which began broadcasting in July, 2005.

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Venezuela - Latin America - TeleSUR - July - 2005

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The latest of his 40 films are The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas (1996 - winner of three awards) and Labouring on the Border's Edge (1999), a documentary about export processing zones on the Mexican-USA border.

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