Name
Ross McElwee
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1947-07-21 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Biography
Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, and Harvard professor, known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort. McElwee is a 1971 graduate of Brown University, and received his MS from MIT in 1977. He received the Career Award at the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Known For
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Documentarian Ross McElwee originally set out to make a travelogue of sorts tracing Genera...
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After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmo...
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An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboy...
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Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient sout...
- 1991 Something to Do with the Wall as Narrator
- 1986 Sherman's March as Self
- 2011 Photographic Memory as Himself
- 1997 Six O'Clock News as Himself
- 1993 Time Indefinite as Himself
- 1977 Charleen or How Long Has This Been Going On? as Himself
- 1984 Backyard as Himself
- 2004 Bright Leaves as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- 2026 Remake as Self
- 1997 Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self
- 1988 POV ( 1 episode ) as Self
