Saul Landau


Saul Landau was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. He was born in the Bronx, New York.

Education

A graduate of Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, he also earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He donated his early papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Television Research.

Career

Landau authored 14 books, produced and directed over 50 documentary films, and wrote editorial columns including for the Huffington Post
He frequently appeared on radio and TV shows.
Gore Vidal said, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from."
During an award ceremony bestowing Landau with Medal of Friendship in 2013, Cuban diplomat Ricardo Alarcon said Saul Landau is a "a real combatant with no other weapons than his talent and intellectual integrity,"
Landau was a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. and a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
He received an Emmy for his film Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang, which he co-directed with Jack Willis, with cinematography by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award 1981 for "Best Fact Crime" for Assassination on Embassy Row about the murder of TNI Director Orlando Letelier and their colleague and friend Ronnie Karpen-Moffitt. He received the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights and also received the Bernado O'Higgins award.
In the early 1960s, he was a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and wrote the play "The Minstrel Show." At that time he was also working as a film distributor.
Landau donated his Latin American-related films and papers to the University of California, Riverside Libraries in 2005.

Death

Landau died after battling bladder cancer for two years on September 9, 2013 at his home in Alameda, California. He was 77.

Films

Landau's films are distributed by Round World Productions. His 1968 film "Fidel" is distributed by Microcinema.