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John Haptas
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San Francisco
California
USA
Contact Type: Artist
web: http://www.ridingthetiger.org
BIO / FILMOGRAPHY FILMS COMPILATIONS SCREENINGS PRESS
Bio:

John worked for years as a location sound mixer on all types of productions, from commercials to features, but primarily documentaries (e.g. Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt, Sing Faster; The Stagehands' Ring Cycle, Cadillac Desert). He now works as an editor and is currently editing a feature-length documentary on the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. John and Kristine Samuelson have just completed a short, The Days and the Hours, about a church in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco that offers homeless people a safe place to sleep.

Filmography/Awards Info:

THE DAYS AND THE HOURS
8 minutes, DVCProHD color (2006)

Just completed

THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
4 minutes, 16mm color (2002)

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Rafael Film Center, San Rafael, CA
The Roxie Theater, San Francisco
Fine Arts Theatre. Berkeley
Dallas Video Fest
UC Irvine - UN/Human Rights Festival
Nashville Film Festival
Osnabruck Film Festival, Germany
Florida Film Festival
Nantucket Film Festival
Maine International Film Festival
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Sao Paulo International Festival of Short Film
SeNef Festival of New Media, Seoul Korea
Red Vic Theater, San Francisco
Sundance Channel (Cable TV)
Nickelodeon Theatre, Columbia, SC
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
George Eastman Theatre, Rochester, NY
Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock, NY
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, New York
Full Frame Film Festival, Durham, NC
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Black Maria Film Festival, Director’s Choice Award

RIDING THE TIGER
34 minutes, 16mm color (1999)

UNA Film Festival (premiere), Stanford, CA
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, New York
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jurors' Choice Award (First Prize),
national tour
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Doubletake Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC
Houston International Film Festival, Gold Special Jury Award
UCLA Documentary Salon, Los Angeles
The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco
Festival Internacional Curtas Metragens, Vila do Conde, Portugal
Mostra Internazionale del Cortometraggio di Montecatini, Italy
Documental, Los Angeles
BBC British Short Film Festival, London
Mill Valley Film Festival, CA
Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Spain
Savannah Film and Video Festival, Best Documentary
Mostra Internacional de Cinema, São Paulo, Brazil
International Documentary Association, nominee for
IDA/ABC News Video Source Award
International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany
Mostra Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Mikrokino Fest, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
International Film Festival of Kerala, India
One World Film Festival, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Best of Festival Tour
Internationales Dokumentarfilm Festival Munchen, Germany
Florida Film Festival. Grand Jury Prize, Short Documentary
University Film and Video Association Conference, Documentary Award of Merit
Vermont Film Festival
Canyonlands Film Festival
Public Television

EMPIRE OF THE MOON
17 minutes, 16mm black-and-white (1991)
Sundance Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
Black Maria Film Festival, Director's Citation
Charlotte Film Festival, Best Experimental Documentary
Ann Arbor Film Festival
British Short Film Festival
National Educational Film Festival, Bronze Apple
American Film Festival, Red Ribbon
Athens Film Festival, Best of Category
San Jose Cinequest
Chicago International Film Festival, Certificate of Merit
Cork Film Festival, Certificate of Merit
Cine Golden Eagle
Public Television
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
San Francisco Cinematheque

WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME
10 minutes, 16mm color (1987)
San Francisco International Film Festival,
Golden Gate Award, Best of Category
Montreal International Festival of Films on Art,
Prix du Meilleur Essai
Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Plaque
National Educational Film and Video Festival, Bronze Apple
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Roxie Theater screening, San Francisco
Rotterdam Stichting Films on Art
Denver International Film Festival
Public Television
Museum of Modern Art, New York




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