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Neil Hollander

Birth : 1939-07-09, New York City, New York, USA

History

Neil Hollander was born in New York City, NY, on July 9, 1939. His ancestry includes German and Irish. Hollander is a graduate of the University of Washington. Today he lives and works in Paris, France. Neil Hollander is a writer, director and film producer. He is author of several books, interview and has also hosted museum exhibits. During his long career Neil has worked as a professor at the University of Washington and as a journalist and war correspondent from Burma. He got his start as a journalist - reporter travelling the country and writing reports from the places he visits. After spending almost a decade on the road, Hollander decided to turn his attention to writing books and screenplays. At the beginning of the 80's Neil Hollander and Harold Mertes decided to sail around the world and document the life of people on various seaports. This project took 4 years and and was captured both on paper and film. It remains to be one of the last remainders of the bygone era. The documentary film that came out of this project "The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail" is a 2.5 hour long video story narrated by Orson Welles. The book, authored by Neil Hollander recalls the author's' experiences with eight surviving craft and gives an insight of the boat history, building and repairing of boats. Neil Hollander has written and directed several feature films, and produced and co-directed "Nobel Voices". It is a collection of thirty-three interviews of Nobel Prize laureates, all of them are interviewed and stored as a part of the heritage of this institution.

Movies

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Co-Producer

In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Writer

In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Burma: A Human Tragedy

Director

In this harrowing documentary the brutal regime of the military Junta in Burma is fully exposed. Through interviews with refugees, survivors and Burma's democratically elected president and Peace Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the terrifying landscape of an ongoing genocide of the ethnic minorities that flies in the face of international law comes horribly alive. Filmed surreptitiously and under constant life threatening conditions, Burma - A Human Tragedy offers a rare glimpse into the systematic human extermination that has gone pretty much ignored.

Under the Radar: Burma

Under the Radar: Burma

Director

While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.

Writer

Hunger is a real and growing problem in the 21st century, where hundreds of millions of people go to bed without a meal each night and thousands literally die for want of food every day.

Director

Hunger is a real and growing problem in the 21st century, where hundreds of millions of people go to bed without a meal each night and thousands literally die for want of food every day.

Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage

Director

A quest for freedom in the South China Sea. Victims of China’s “One-Child” policy, 100 orphans, all girls, are shepherded by a determined activist, Mrs. Brown (Charlotte De Turckheim) onto a tramp freighter for a harrowing escape from the Chinese authorities.

Writer

This edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.

Director

This edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

Director

Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distinct cultures or geographic locations.

Jim Thompson: The Man & the Legend

Jim Thompson: The Man & the Legend

Director

When the "Silk King" Jim Thompson came to Thailand at the end of World War 2, he became one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. His disappearance in the Malaysian jungle in 1967 is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century

Riding the Rails

Riding the Rails

Director

Wiped out by a stock market crash, Sam Spencer suddenly finds himself broke and homeless in New York. When a friend offers him a job in California, Sam heads west the only way he can afford, hopping trains. Along the way, he befriends Enrique, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and Enrique's canine companion who together introduce Sam to hobo culture.