Lawrence Hott

Lawrence Hott
Hott on production in the Everglades working on the film John James Audubon
Born	(1950-10-06) 6 October 1950 (age 74) New York, U.S.
Occupation	Documentary Filmmaker
Website
www.florentinefilms.org

Lawrence "Larry" Hott is an American academic and documentary filmmaker.

Hott is a co-founding partner of Florentine Films, joining Ken Burns, Roger Sherman and Buddy Squires in documentary production in 1978. ^{[1] [2]} He has produced and directed documentary films for PBS, the Library of American Landscape History, the American Antiquarian Society and others. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, ^[3] received a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and five blue ribbons from the American Film Festival. ^[1] Hott has taught courses in the University Without Walls program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. ^[4]

Hott is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ^[5] Hott has been a Fulbright Program Fellow in both Vietnam and Great Britain. ^[6]

Filmography

• The Old Quabbin Valley 1982
• The Garden of Eden 1983
• The Adirondacks 1986
• Sentimental Women Need Not Apply 1988
• The Wilderness Idea 1989
• Wild by Law 1991
• Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America 1992
• Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish 1994
• Defending Everybody: The Story of the ACLU 1998
• The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America
• The Boyhood Of John Muir 1998
• Divided Highways 1998
• Writing Alone and With Others
• Ohio: 200 Years
• Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival
• The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced 2002
• John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature 2006
• Niagara Falls 2006
• On Thin Ice
• Through Deaf Eyes 2006
• The American Antiquarian Society
• Library of American Landscape History
• The Return of the Cuyahoga
• Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
• Rising Voices 2014
• Scitech Band: Pride of Springfield 2017
• The Warrior Tradition 2019
• The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights 2023

References

1. Serreze, Mary (November 14, 2017). "Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott to teach documentary workshop in Northampton". Springfield Republican . Retrieved April 28, 2018.
2. Edgerton, G. (2016). Ken Burns's America: Packaging the Past for Television. Springer. p. 55. ISBN   978-1137054821.
3. "1992 Oscars". 1992 Oscars Academy of Motion Pictures. AMPAS.
4. Pfarrer, Steve (March 16, 2017). "Lights, camera, action: Veteran documentarian leads class on filmmaking". Daily Hampshire Gazette . Retrieved April 28, 2018.
5. "UWW Instructors". University Without Walls. University of Massachusetts Amherst . Retrieved April 28, 2018.
6. Robbins, Carolyn (March 24, 2015). "Florentine Films' Larry Hott wins Fulbright to teach craft in Vietnam". Masslive.com. Retrieved December 8, 2018.

External links

• Online films by Hott for the Library of American Landscape History
• Online films by Hott for the American Antiquarian Society
• PBS website Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced
• Every Cut is a Lie: Lawrence Hott at TEDxFulbright