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Ronald Mann (born June 13, 1958) is a Canadian documentary film director. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His work includes the films Imagine the Sound (1981); Comic Book Confidential (1988); Grass (1999) and Go Further (2003), both of which feature Woody Harrelson ; In the Wake of the Flood (2010), which features author Margaret Atwood ; and Altman ...
Toronto filmmaker Ron Mann is one of Canada's foremost documentary filmmakers. Mann established his international reputation while in his twenties with a series of award-winning theatrical documentaries, including Imagine the Sound (1981), Poetry in Motion (1982), Comic Book Confidential (1988), Twist (1992), and Grass (1999).
Oct 15, 2014 · Over the past 30 years, Ron Mann has built a formidable reputation in the underground documentary fraternity, making films that speak about counterculture movements in North America. Starting as a 23-year-old, the Canadian’s first film, Imagine the Sound, examined the free jazz movement of the ’60s through the compilation film format ...
Acclaimed director Ron Mann delves into the captivating rise and fall of Clairtone, an audacious Canadian electronics company founded by Peter Munk and David Gilmore during the vibrant 1960s. Renowned for their high-end stereos and color televisions that epitomized iconic mid-century design, Clairtone soared to international acclaim, becoming a ...
Jun 3, 2016 · Ron Mann is one of Canada’s foremost documentary filmmakers and an influential member of the Toronto New Wave. A self-described “cultural historian,” Mann makes idiosyncratic films that typically focus on alternative subjects and marginalized subcultures.
Poetry in Motion is a 1982 Canadian documentary film directed by Ron Mann featuring contemporary North American poetry and music. Featured are some of the Black Mountain poets, Beats, minimalist poets, and avant-garde poets. It was released in theaters, later being distributed on VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD. [1]
A true wunderkind, documentary filmmaker Ron Mann made his first feature, the celebrated Imagine the Sound, at the age of 21. He began making short films while in high school and studied briefly at Vermont’s Bennington College before receiving a B.A. in film from the University of Toronto.
Ron Mann was born and raised in Provo, Utah. Prior to completing his college degree, he joined the Air Force, where he hoped to live the exciting life of a fighter pilot.
The film was directed and produced by Ron Mann. [2] It features brief contributions by several actors who had appeared in Altman's films, such as Robin Williams, Bruce Willis, Julianne Moore, Michael Murphy and Elliott Gould, as well as director Paul Thomas Anderson, who served as a "backup" director on A Prairie Home Companion.
Ron Mann was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer and director, known for Twist (1992), Comic Book Confidential (1988) and Grass (1999).
