Sam Green - The Weather Underground, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, Utopia in Four Movements

Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker whose feature film, The Weather Underground, was nominated for an Academy Award and broadcast nationally on PBS.  Sam’s other award-winning documentaries include Lot 3, Grave C, Pie Fight ’69, N-Judah 5:30, and The Rainbow Man/John 3:16.  Sam also teaches at the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute. Recently, Sam has co-created Utopia in Four Movements, which uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a singular, poetic essay that stretches the very norms of the nonfiction genre and musical performance.