Josh Hanig(1951-1998)
- Producer
- Cinematographer
- Director
Josh Hanig produced and directed films and television for more than a
dozen years. His first film, Men's Lives, (with Will Roberts) was a
look at the traditional role of American men. The film won a student
Academy Award and went on to wide distribution, winning prizes at
several international film festivals. Song of the Canary (with David
Davis) a hard-hitting expose about toxic hazards in the environment,
was nominated for a national Emmy and won the Best Documentary prizes
at the Chicago, Mannheim and Athens Film Festivals. Coming of Age,
about inner city youth in Los Angeles, had its premiere at the New York
Film Festival, and won Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival. He was one of the first producers to open the door to the
Soviet Union--traveling to that country just before Gorbachov's
Glasnost for a series on Soviet life. He also produced and directed
Generation at Risk, a PBS Outreach Special on contemporary teenagers
narrated by Sam Waterston; Storytellers, narrated by Glenn Close, a
celebration of American writing, starring Kurt Vonnegut, Woody Allen,
Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and other major American writers; and The
Common Enemy, a film hosted by Bill Cosby about the joint efforts of
Russian and American scientists in the battle against cancer. He wrote
and directed for A&E's Ancient Mysteries series and completed a special
on the early pioneers of television for The History Channel. Josh also
directed music videos with people such as Bobby McFerrin, and directed
for the theatre, including productions of Tennessee Williams' Summer
and Smoke and Horton Foote's Land of the Astronauts. He also taught at
the University of Southern California. Josh grew up in Texas and
Indiana, and graduated from Antioch College.