TOM HURWITZ
CINEMATOGRAPHER

Tom Hurwitz is one of our country’s most honored documentary cinematographers. Winner of two Emmy Awards and a Sundance Award for Best Cinematography, Hurwitz has photographed films that have won four Academy Awards and several more nominations (most recently for Dance Maker). His television programs have won literally dozens of awards over the past twenty-five years: Emmy, Dupont, Peabody, Directors Guild, and film festival awards for best documentary. Most recently, the PBS series Franklin won this year’s Emmy Award for Best Documentary Special. Other award-winning films and programs that he has photographed include: VALENTINO: The Last Emperor, Harlan County USA, Wild Man Blues, My Generation, Down and Out in America, The Turandot Project, Liberty, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, I Have a Dream, for ABC, and Questioning Faith, for HBO. In addition, films that he has directed have won the Cine Golden Eagle (Bombs will Make the Rainbow Break) and have been shown in festivals around the world. As well as photographing several projects, he is presently producing and directing a film, in development with Lumiere Productions, on world wide religious fundamentalism.