Ross McElwee

He was born in North Carolina, USA, in 1947. He studied at Brown University in Rhode Island, and majored in Filmmaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directed the documentaries Space Coast (1979), Charleen (1980), Backyard (1984), Sherman’s March (1986; screened at Viennale Focus), Bright Leaves (2003) and In Paraguay (2008), among others.