Oscar winning filmmaker to give lecture to Vietnamese students
Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris is to give a lecture on the craft to cinema students at the Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents in Hanoi on October 25.
The lecture, which starts at 8.30am at 51 Tran Hung Dao Street, is part of a three-day master class on making documentaries.
After graduating from Harvard College, Harris started his professional career as a reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago, covering crime.
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Within a year he moved on to reporting national news for Associated Press and then to television, where he started making documentary films for the King Broadcasting Co. stations in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, and Washington.
Harris's award-winning early films document some of the most important and contentious political issues of the 60s.
In recent years Harris has focused on producing films, including the award-winning Darfur Now and two high profile documentary features, Spirit of the Marathon and Living in Emergency – stories of Doctors Without Borders.
Since 1983 he has taught filmmaking at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, where he is a Distinguished Professor. From 1990-96 he was the chair of Film and TV Production.