Hubert Sauper

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Hubert Sauper (b. 27 July 1966, Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria) is a documentary filmmaker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare (2004) which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Sauper has lived in the UK, Italy, and the USA and now lives in France. He studied film directing in universities in Vienna and France. He teaches film classes in Europe and the USA.

He acted in several short films and two feature length films: In The Circle Of The Iris, directed by Peter Patzak, (with Philippe Léotard), and Blue Distance, directed by Peter Schreiner.

His two latest documentaries have received twelve International Film Prizes.

Filmography

On the Road With Emil (1993, Documentary)
So I Sleepwalk In Broad Daylight (1994, fiction)
Lomographer's Moscow (1995, Documentary)
Kisangani Diary / Loin du Rwanda (Far From Rwanda) (1998, Documentary)
Alone With Our Stories (2000, Documentary)
Darwin's Nightmare (2004, Documentary)
We Come as Friends (2014, Documentary)

External links

Hubert Sauper at the Internet Movie Database
Review of "Darwin's Nightmare" (in French)
Hubert Sauper, "Giving Voice to Those Who Are Not Heard" (Video interview from Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary)
Interview with Hubert Sauper, co-director of Kisangani Diary "We cannot call ourselves democrats when people are still treated like animals" with Stefan Steinberg on the World Socialist Web Site

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 80267533 LCCN: no2005101761 ISNI: 0000 0001 1951 8166 GND: 135813700 BNF: cb14545142t

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Name	Sauper, Hubert
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Short description	Austrian film maker
Date of birth	27 July 1966
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