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John Hanson

John Hanson

Known For Directing
Birthday Mar 07, 1942 (83)
Birthplace St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Popularity 0.7 (history)
Updated Aug 03, 2025
Entry Date Apr 26, 2024
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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1942 and raised in McClusky, North Dakota, Hanson graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, received his B.A. from Carleton College, and did postgraduate studies in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He began hi ... s career in film, going on to direct the motion pictures Northern Lights, Wildrose, and Shimmer, and numerous film, video and television documentaries. His films have been shown at film festivals around the world, including Venice, Berlin, London, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Sundance and Cannes, where Northern Lights won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature of 1979. In addition to many other film awards, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northland College. He is past chair and current board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He was a founding member of Cine Manifest, a seminal independent film collective in San Francisco and the Independent Feature Project. He lives in Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Known For

Filmography

Mafia on the Bounty

Mafia on the Bounty

1980

as Bruce

Wildrose

Wildrose

1984

Writer

Northern Lights

Northern Lights

1978

Editor, Writer

Baker's Hawk

Baker's Hawk

1976

Editor

Shimmer

Shimmer

1993

Director

Wildrose

Wildrose

1984

Director

Northern Lights

Northern Lights

1978

Director

Northern Lights

Northern Lights

1978

Producer

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