About Frederick Marx
Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed, Oscar and Emmy nominated director/writer with 45 years in the film business. He was named a Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award.
Hoop Dreams
His film HOOP DREAMS (1994) is one of the highest grossing non-musical documentaries in United States history and the International Documentary Association named it “The Best Documentary of All Time”. It won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever chosen to close the New York Film Festival.
Additionally, prestigious awards include an Academy Nomination (Best Editing), Producer’s Guild, Editor’s Guild (ACE), Peabody Awards, the Prix Italia (Europe’s top documentary prize) and The National Society of Film Critics Award. The New York, Boston, LA, and San Francisco Film Critics all chose it as Best Documentary, 1994. Utne Reader named it one of 150 of humanity’s “essential works,” and the Library of Congress recently added it to its prestigious National Film Registry. The film was also named Best Film of the Year by critics Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Gene Shalit, and Ken Turran and by the Chicago Film Critics Association. Ebert also named it Best Film of the Decade.
Higher Goals
In 1993, Marx received an Emmy nomination for HIGHER GOALS (1992) for Best Daytime Children’s Special. As Producer, Director, and Writer for this national PBS Special, Marx directed Tim Meadows of “Saturday Night Live” fame. Accompanied by a curriculum guide, the program was later distributed for free to over 4,200 inner city schools nationwide.
The Unspoken
THE UNSPOKEN (1999), Marx’s first feature film, features stellar performances from Russian star Sergei Shnirev of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix, most known for GET ON THE BUS, BOB ROBERTS, TITUS, ER, and MATRIX.
Frederick is also an esteemed author and public speaker, with a passion for buddhism and spirituality. He has spoken publicly on a range of topics including rites of passage, men’s issues, mentorship, documentary film-making and the experience of veterans returning from war.
What if we could understand our lives in deeper ways, maximizing meaning and fulfillment even during times of crisis?