John Haptas
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San Francisco California USA |
Contact Type: Artist |
| web: http://www.ridingthetiger.org | |
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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 This Contact appears in this database if Microcinema International has screened a film directed by the Contact, a film directed by the contact is featured in a DVD distributed by the Blackchair Collection Shop, or featured an organization or activity linked with the Contact. 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