Stefan Forbes
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Stefan Forbes is an American screenwriter and documentary film director.
Career
Forbes' first feature film was the 2008 documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, about the life of political operative Lee Atwater.[citation needed]
Forbes also shot and co-directed the one-hour documentary One More Dead Fish, seen on PBS, about environmentally friendly handline fishermen in Canada who seized a federal building and barricaded themselves inside for 26 days.[citation needed]
With Grammy-nominated composer John Beasley, Forbes created the hour-long work Monk Recut, featuring recut performance footage of American composer Thelonious Monk in rhythmic, visual, and harmonic interplay with Beasley's inventive compositions for the big band MONK'estra. Featuring spoken word quotations from Monk's unique life philosophy, the work premiered at the LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall in February 2018.
He has also directed Emmy Award-nominated awareness campaigns about hunger in America featuring Charlize Theron, The Edge, Mike Myers, and Stanley Tucci.
Critical reception and awards
Forbes' production company, InterPositive Media, was named one of 2009's Global Top 100 Production Companies by RealScreen magazine.
Forbes is a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and the 2008 winner of the International Documentary Association's Emerging Filmmaker Award.
The Washington Post called Boogie Man "one of the best political films ever". It won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, the George Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay.[1]
The Detroit News called One More Dead Fish "excellent and inspiring".
References
- ^ Finke, Nikki (7 January 2009). "2009 WGA Awards Screen Nominees". Deadline. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
Further reading
- Q&A with Stefan Forbes | Boogie Man - The Lee Atwater Story | FRONTLINE | PBS
- Interview on KCRW's The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell
- New York Times film review
- Roger Ebert review
- The Washington Post review "The Lee Atwater Story': Riveting Ruthlessness" 2
- Entertainment Weekly review
- Dalia Martinez, "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story", Talk Of The Nation, September 23, 2008.
- John Powers, "A 'Boogie Man' With A Legacy Of Complicated Moves", Fresh Air, October 20, 2008.
- "The Paradox Of Lee Atwater", Talk Of The Nation, September 23, 2008
- "The Dirty South", On The Media, November 7, 2008
- Boogie Man - Critical Response
- Stefan Forbes discusses Boogie Man on MSNBC's Morning Joe
External links
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