Sam Bozzo

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Samuel Bozzo
BornFebruary 15, 1969 (1969-02-15) (age 55)

Sam Bozzo (born February 15, 1969) is an American film director and author.

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Bozzo wrote, directed, and edited three short films. For Which It Stands (1990) was screened in the Sundance Film Festival. The Shadowed Cry (1992) was created as a Top 10 Director assignment for Project Greenlight, run by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Holiday on the Moon (1994) won the TriggerStreet.com Short Film competition held at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been screened on the Sundance Channel. Bozzo won a 1994 CINE award for the film. [1]

Bozzo has finished two feature documentaries, one on hackers (Hackers Wanted) [2] and the other Blue Gold: World Water Wars, inspired by the book by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke.

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References

  1. Holiday on the Moon CINE Eagle
  2. Can You Hack It? (2007), Archived copy of currently deleted IMDB page from the Internet Archive.