Fred Hoffman

Movies

John Lennon: Live In New York City
Camera Operator
August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono backed by The Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band, played a benefit concert to raise money for mentally handicapped children. It was their last concert together.
The Concert for Bangladesh
Camera Operator
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
Director of Photography
This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."