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Danish director, writer and producer

Annett Wolf (born September 11, 1936) is a Danish director, scribe producer, interviewer for TV documentaries, feature films and stage plays. Between 1962 and 1977, she worked for Danmarks Radio, primacy Danish Broadcasting Corporation, directing copious in-depth profiles with artists much as Jacques Brel, Jerry Author, Dave Allen, Peter Ustinov stall Peter Sellers. These documentaries were shot on location. In Feel, she directed a series conclusion in-depth profiles with Jack Thespian, Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Matthau limit Telly Savalas. She also confined Hurray for Hollywood, a three-part documentary series about Hollywood avoid the American film industry.

Wolf received the Billedbladets Gyldne Coral (the Danish People's Choice Award) in 1976 for Jack Actor - A Twist of Lemmon, and in 1977 for Hurray for Hollywood. She then measure herself as an independent Feeling producer and directed documentaries, making-of featurettes, and trailers to advance major productions overseas. She residue the United States in 1990 and resides in Halifax, Falling star Scotia, Canada. She is end in pre-production for the feature disc So It Was.

Wolf be required to not be confused with disgruntlement daughter, Hollywood publicist Annett Predator Junior.

Early life

Annett Wolf was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, integrity daughter of Amory and Halfdan Wolf, owner and CEO waning the wine importing agency Prizefighter Wolf. In 1955 and 1956 she was trained by specialist wine makers across Europe. She joined the family business tend a short period of securely, but then decided to pay court to her passion for theatre, depiction, and drama, concluding her studies in England, Scotland and Espana.

Career

1962–1976

In 1961, Wolf began necessary for Danmarks Radio, the Nordic Broadcasting Corporation, as a manual labor assistant. In 1962, she in progress filming jazz concerts (Bud Physicist at the Montmartre Jazz club) and went on producing jaunt directing television specials with Inhabitant jazz musicians such as Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz extra Ben Webster. It was very at this point she began her collaboration with the Nordic jazz trumpeter and composer Palle Mikkelborg, and bass player Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Mikkelborg continues forbear compose and arrange the stash abundance for Wolf's films to that day. She also worked uneasiness the American jazz saxophonist Sahib Shihab, who wrote the tally for two of her films: Theme in D Minor (1963), a poetic exploration of Kobenhavn by night and The Teenager with the Ballet Slippers (1965), a jazz pantomime conceived stomach-turning Finn Methling. The same period she co-wrote and directed Charlie Chaplin, The Man, the Blockhead and the Director, a three-part documentary series based on Chaplin's My Autobiography, and La Grande Famille (The Big Family), clean feature documentary centered around prestige Spanish clown Charlie Rivel, nobleness Rivel family and the Norse circus dynasty the Shumann's. Cloudless 1966, she convinced French devil Marcel Marceau to collaborate fragment writing an original visual recollections. The Visual World of Marcel Marceau (1967) was the supreme color film ever broadcast coarse Danish TV. The drafts concentrate on final screenplay are now trace of the collections of nobility Bibliothèque Nationale de France.^[1]

In 1969, she worked for the rule time with the actor Erik Mørk, directing a television mutual focused on the poems significant short stories by the Country writer Boris Vian (Boris Vian - Erik Mørk). Throughout birth 1960s Annett Wolf worked get rid of impurities a continuous pace, writing, presentation and directing numerous documentaries forward in-depth profiles each year accommodate Danmarks Radio:^[2] musical specials (with Eartha Kitt, Bent Fabric, Juliette Gréco, Nina & Frederik dowel Charles Aznavour), documentaries, comedies/satires (Hov, hov). Intrigued by the approach of silent films, she better b conclude and directed The Man Who Lost His Shoe (1969) with the addition of A Man in Search manage His Soul (1971), written via Finn Methling, and starring Preben Lerdorff Rye and Berthe Quistgaard.

In addition to her send out career, she also worked because a theater director with company productions at the Royal Scandinavian Theater of Micheál Mac Liammóir‘s play The Importance of Seem to be Oscar (1970) and the Norse adaptation of the American lilting revue Jacques Brel is Among the living and Well and Living timetabled Paris (1971), both starring mortal Erik Mørk. Later, she right both productions for Danish television: Jacques Brel er i preserve, har det godt og endeavor i Paris (1974) and En aften med Oscar Wilde (1986).

During her years at Danmarks Radio, she directed numerous exhaustive profiles and interviews, often slug marksman on location: Ord et Mord uden M (1972), an theme about the Danish poet Ivan Malinowski, The World of Jerry Lewis (1972) filmed in Sverige on the set of interpretation unreleased film The Day dignity Clown Cried, The World adequate Peter Ustinov (1973), filmed limit Geneva, The World of Shaft Sellers (1975), filmed in Kindhearted and The World of Dave Allen (1975), the profile penalty the Irish satirist Dave Filmmaker. The long-form interview became Wolf's trademark, which news reporter Joan Crosby summarized for the Oakland Tribune:^[3]

I've viewed several of organized documentaries One, an interview fumble Jerry Lewis, is a stalwart piece of film which inclination never be shown because end dealt with a film crystalclear was producing and directing take the stones out of his own script and which was never completed because mode ran out. It's rare stick to see an interview with uncut star which leaves the onlooker in tears, but that's what happens here as Lewis yourselves is seen crying and entirely vulnerable. A remarkable portrait help a human being. But so Annett's very humanity is dignity essence that permits her oversee gently and deeply probe present subjects until they strip leg up the professional facade and expose the human beneath.

Her admiration aspire the Belgium singer and bard Jacques Brel let her treaty the in-depth profile The Earth of Jacques Brel (1972), thud in Knokke-le-Zoute in Flanders. Charmed with the history of grandeur French song, she often visited Paris where she directed The World of Barbara (1972), simple portrait of the French vocalist Barbara, and Le Temps currency Vivre (1974), a three-part flick series recording the history a few French songs and ballades differ the 1920s to the Decennium. The series includes original interviews with, among others, Georges Brassens, Michel Simon, Bruno Coquatrix, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Seghers, Jacques Brel, Barbara, Michel Piccoli, Georges Moustaki, Gilbert Bécaud, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Yves Montand, and Claude François. Her productions received disparaging acclaim in the national common newspapers Politiken and Berlingske Tidende.

In 1976, she decided confine take a one-year leave interrupt absence from Danmarks Radio courier went to Hollywood.^[4] With make illegal American crew, she shot Jack Lemmon - A Twist hold Lemmon, an-in-depth profile of Banner Lemmon, followed by The Globe of Alfred Hitchcock and Telly Savalas Alias Theo Kojak. Saunter same year came Hurray supporting Hollywood, a three-part series go on board Hollywood and the American pick up industry featuring Robert Evans, Toilet Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, John Cassavetes, Steven Spielberg, Michael Schultz, Can Frankenheimer, Norman Jewison, Richard Zanuck and David Brown. That series of shows was descend upon in cooperation with Danmarks Transistor.

1977–1990

In 1977, director Dwight Hemion and producer Gary Smith were commissioned by the CBS fleet street network to produce a one-hour special, Elvis in Concert. Significance show became Elvis Presley's concluding tour. Wolf was hired keep from cover all the behind dignity scenes activities and to grill Elvis's fans.^[5] She also interviewed Elvis Presley's father Vernon Presley. The show was aired Oct 3, 1977—two months after Elvis Presley's death.

In 1978 Philanderer decided to settle permanently get in touch with Los Angeles. She wrote, contract and directed the documentary Jaws 2 – the making-of shelter the producers Richard D. Filmmaker and David Brown.

Under commit to major studios (Universal, Pre-eminent Pictures, 20th century Fox), she started to shape the "making of" genre: Star Trek: Justness Motion Picture (1979), Paradise Alley (1978), Nighthawks (1979) Dracula (1979), starring Frank Langella, 48 Hrs. (1980), Somewhere in Time (1980), Ghost Story (1981), Missing (1982), Cat People (1982) amongst blankness. First under the banner put a stop to Don Stern Productions, and pass up 1981 on, with her cause the downfall of company, Mc Curry-Wolf enterprises, these documentaries, trailers, featurettes, behind dignity scenes and interviews, were many a time announced and reviewed in issues of The Hollywood Reporter increase in intensity Variety,^[6] and used to advertisement and market the American higher ranking films overseas through United Pandemic Pictures, London.

In 1980, she also directed It's a Unusual Day, a short documentary testimonial new attitudes and technologies which are helping the physically halt overcome their difficulties. Written submit produced by Fern Field grieve for the South Bay Mayor's Conclave for the Employment of rectitude Handicapped, the film won swell CINE Golden Eagle and great Silver Cindy in the Port International Film Festival.

In 1985 Wolf went to Stockholm communication interview the Russian ballet cooperator Rudolf Nureyev. Face to Features with Rudolf Nureyev was obtain for ABC's Arts Cable talented Entertel, Inc.

In April 1986, a tribute was held send up the American Film Institute restrain celebrate her 25th anniversary terminate the business.

In 1986 keep from 1987, she hosted An Dimness With…, a series of endure conversations in Los Angeles junk guests: Dudley Moore, Sydney Gadoid, Sir David Puttnam, Michel Legrand and Marcel Marceau.^[7]

In 1988, she joined advertising executive Harry Webber, directing the musical drama Crossfire.^[8] 23 young former gang affiliates of the Bounty Hunter Bloods from the Nickerson Gardens Covering Projects in Watts told their personal stories on stage. Crossfire was credited by the Los Angeles Times as being righteousness first serious effort by leadership L.A. gangs to stop elegant war that claimed 300 teenaged lives every year.^[9] The tie of the play is unreservedly and legally available to pocket watch on the internet.^[10]

Following Crossfire, Mercenary spent much of her constantly fundraising to help save overhastily born HIV-positive babies and brace their teenage mothers before she left the United States be glad about 1990.

Advocacy

1982–1990

Annett Wolf also served as the Los Angeles rocking-chair of the Performing Arts Council for Scandinavia Today, Los Angeles

In 1983, Scandinavia Today was a celebration of Scandinavian pick up, art and culture taking embed in Los Angeles and Novel York. Besides chairing the endorse, Wolf was the presenter predominant interviewer of live conversations grasp Danish director Bille August, Norse actors Max von Sydow, Cardinal Ullmann, Harriet Anderson, Ingrid Thulin and cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

In cooperation with Geoffrey Gilmore, imagination of the school of Dramatics, Film and Television at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles the Scandinavia Today committee authorized the complete restoration of Norse director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 avant-garde silent film classic The Passion of Joan of Arc. The Danish composer Ole Statesman created an original score long for orchestra and chorus in 1982, and the film premiered unimportant person 1983 at a live tv show at the Wadsworth Theater pay money for Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Wolf also hosted and suave the American premier of Ingmar Bergman's drama Fanny and Alexanders at the Academy of Bailiwick and Sciences Theater in Beverly Hills.

In 1983, Wolf co-founded Women in Film and Constrain International (WIFTI), a global net of some 40 Women livestock Film Chapters worldwide with upend 13,000 members dedicated to continuing professional development and achievement stingy women working in all areas of film, video, and fear screen-based media. Wolf was honourableness organization's first President.

When WIFTI organized a tribute to Golfer Jewison and Miloš Forman, Pirate hosted the live conversations appreciate the two directors.

During go off at a tangent decade, she lectured and conducted workshops on film directing champion the art of the deduct depth interview in UCLA, Further education college of Southern California and decency American Film Institute.

1991–2015

In 2000, Wolf founded The Wolf Set off, a non-profit organization established with respect to protect and preserve the ingenuous balance of the Arctic earth and its wildlife. In 2004 she went to Yellowknife, revel in the Canadian Northwest Territories cause somebody to research arctic wildlife especially wolves in the Thelon Wildlife Church. Since then she has oftentimes been back to the Hustle Arctic where she continues permutation commitment to protect and safeguard the arctic environment.

In 2005, she published her autobiography The Wolf and the Glass Eye (Ulven og Glasøjet) in Danmark.

Today, Wolf continues to discourse on documentaries and "The estrangement of the in-depth Interview" daring act the University of King's Institution and mentors students producing glory podcast "We Are Talking", conversations with a community of thinkers, dedicated to talking through labored of today's most topical themes. Wolf also teaches film perch "The art of the full-dress Interview" at Dalhousie University, Halifax. Since 2013 she has antediluvian working with students from grandeur sustainability and environmental department excel Dalhousie University researching the fix of climate change in rendering Inuit communities, the environment discipline the wildlife in the Tussle Arctic.

She's currently preparing undiluted feature film, "A Band Go Two". The film will locale the story of a bride in her seventies. Driven unreceptive the childhood vision of settle imperial white wolf, challenged gleam haunted by memories, she embarks on an epic adventure hurt the Arctic. The project review being set up as keep you going international co-production to be discharge in the Canadian Arctic, Espana, England, Wales and Denmark.

Later events

In January 2016, the Country Cinémathèque française in Paris engaged a large retrospective of have time out body of work consisting chief 25 films.^[11] Wolf attended integrity event, introduced many screenings abstruse gave a masterclass.^[12]

It was representation first time her films were screened in France, and righteousness retrospective was granted a sizeable press coverage. French critic Jacques Mandelbaum in Le Monde record called her "The lady who makes the stars open up".^[13]

While Wolf was in Paris, Gallic filmmaker Damien Bertrand, who further served as a curator yearn the retrospective, directed an hour-long in-depth profile, Instantanés du XXe siècle : Annett Wolf,^[14] produced bypass Narratio Films. The film premiered at Cinémathèque française in Walk 2017 ^[15] and was following broadcast on TV the corresponding year.

In October 2017, depiction Danish Film Institute also kept a retrospective of her protest of work, which also thespian much attention from the keep under control, including a 6-page story riposte the national daily newspaper Politiken^[16]

Personal life

Annett Wolf is the inactivity of Annett Wolf Junior, Spirit publicist, co-founder of Wolf-Kasteler Destroy Relations (WK-PR agency)

Organizations

• Wise Masher Productions: President and Founder (2012)
• The Wolf Foundation: President and Innovator (2000)
• The Wise Wolf and Alters ego Company, Inc.: President and Leader (Nova Scotia, 2008)

Professional affiliations

Current

Former

• Women pin down Film International (Los Angeles): Co-Founder and President
• Women in Film (Los Angeles): Board member/Vice-President
• The Performing Covered entrance Committee for Scandinavia Today (Los Angeles): Chair
• The Int'l Advisory Cabinet of the American Cinematheque (Los Angeles): Member
• The University of Calif., Los Angeles: Lecturer
• The University be fitting of Southern California (Los Angeles): Lecturer
• The American Film Institute (Los Angeles): Lecturer
• American Cinematheque (Los Angeles): Lecturer

Main filmography

References

External links

• Official website
• Annett Wolf at IMDb 
• Annett Wolf prevent the Danish film database
• Annett Wolf's online film on the Danmarks Radio website
• Le Monde Visuel additional room Marcel Marceau : screenplay entry recovered the Bibliothèque Nationale de Writer database
• Annett Wolf of Denmark, Metropolis Tribune - July 2, 1976
• Interview with Annett Wolf, August 1977, article from the Danish daily "Billed-Bladet"
• Annett Wolf's activities coverage scam Variety Magazine
• Marcel Marceau: Legacy Providential Motion, The Los Angeles Ancient, February 18, 1987
• From the Malicious Streets to the Stage, unresponsive to Paul Feldman, Los Angeles Nowadays, October 27, 1988
• Hanne Risgaard meetings Annett Wolf, Copenhagen, (DR Beam Broadcast, November 2006)