Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau's most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.

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  • Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau's most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang. " In 2008, the Chilean government presented him withthe Bernardo O'Higgins Award for his human rights work. Landau has written fourteen books including a book of poems, "My Dad Was Not Hamlet. " He received an Edgar Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt. He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. He is a senior Fellow at and Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies. Gore Vidal says, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from" A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate, Landau donated his papers and films to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Landau has been a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, D.C. , for twenty-seven years, and he is also a senior fellow and former director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. He received many awards, including an Emmy, for his film created with Oscar and Emmy-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980); the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row (with John Dinges; Pantheon 1980) about the murder of TNI Director, Orlando Letelier; and the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his life's contribution to human rights.
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  • Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. Landau's most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.
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