New Film We Don't Play Golf Here--and other stories of globalization
Wins Roxie Award for Best Activist Video October 2007
"A clear eyed, unexpected and important book look at our Mexican nieghbor." – Gore Vidal
Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau's most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang." In 2008, the Chilean government presented him withthe Bernardo O'Higgins Award for his human rights work. Landau has written fourteen books including a book of poems, "My Dad Was Not Hamlet." He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.
He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona.
He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Gore Vidal says, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from"
Saul Landau and Sub-Comandante in Chiapas, Mexico
Saul Landau and Academy Award winner Haskel Wexler on location in Chiapas, Mexico
Saul Landau and C. Writght Mills, 1962
Photo by Lillian Tonnaire Taylor. Courtesy Kate Mills
Fidel Castro, Saul Landau, Peace Corps officials Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, 1974
Saul Landau signs his book for Jamaican President Michael Manley
Saul Landau receives the Bernardo O'Higgins Award, 2008
From left: Salvador Carrasco, Tom Hayden, Saul Landau, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II at the Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica
Saul Landau's Awards
Bernardo O’Higgins Award for Human Rights
Letelier-Moffit Human Rights Award
George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting
First Amendment Award
Emmy Award
Roxie Award for Best Activist Video
Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award
Mannheim Film Festival: Critics' First Prize
Ann Arbor Film Festival Fiirst Prize
Berlin Film Festival First Prize
Best Director Award First American Indian Intercontinental Film Festival
Golden Apple Award
Best Picture North Carolina Smoky Mountain Film Festival
