Inspirational Filmmaker

For our project we choose Frederick Wiseman to be our inspiration.
Wiseman was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Gertrude Leah (née Kotzen) and Jacob Leo Wiseman.

• He gained a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1951, and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1954. 
• He spent 1954 to 1956 serving in the U.S. Military. 
• Wiseman spent a few years in Paris before coming back and started teaching law at Boston University's Institute of Law and Medicine. 
• He then started documentary filmmaking, and has won numerous film awards, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.

Wiseman's films are often referred to as being in the observational mode of filmmaking, which has its roots in direct cinema.

Representative Documentary: