Dick Fontaine
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Dick Fontaine is an English documentary filmmaker, currently (as of 2006) head of documentary direction at the National Film and Television School (UK).[1]
Fontaine was one of the founders of Granada Television's World in Action series. He has made numerous films on African American music and other closely related topics, including Beat This: A Hip-Hop History (1984)[1] and Bombin' (1988).[2] In all, he has made over 40 documentaries.[3]
He is the father of writer, music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Beat This: a Hip Hop History screening at Saddlers Wells, www.britishhiphop.co.uk, , 12 April 2006. Accessed online 4 March 2007.
- ^ PAST: Black World TV: Rap & Hip-Hop, Blackworld, British Film Institute. Accessed online 4 March 2007.
- ^ Dick Fontaine at the Internet Movie Database Accessed online 4 March 2007.
- ^ Larry Getlen, "A Better Vibe", Wesleyan (Wesleyan University alumni magazine), Issue IV 2006, 28–32. p. 28.
