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Jul 06, 1938 Brooklyn, New York, United States Died on 05 Nov 2013 (aged 75)
American filmmaker and photographer
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About Ed Pincus
- Edward Ralph Pincus (July 6, 1938 – November 5, 2013) studied philosophy and photography at Harvard, and began filmmaking in 1964, developing a direct cinema approach to social and political problems.
- He has producer-director-director of photography credits on eight of his films and has been cinematographer on more than a dozen additional films.
- Pincus also authored Guide to Filmmaking (1968) and co-authored The Filmmaker's Handbook (1984 & 1999).
- He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Pincus started and developed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Film Section.
- He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) and several National Endowment for the Arts grants.
- He was Visiting Filmmaker at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Visiting Filmmaker for three years at Harvard. After completing his best-known work, Diaries, he moved to Vermont and became a farmer until returning to film in 2007.
- Ed was known as a leading cut flower Peony producer, who influenced many future generations of farmers and contributed greatly to the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers.
- Pincus died November 5, 2013 of leukemia in Roxbury, Vermont.
