Lawrence Hott

{{Short description|American filmmaker}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Lawrence Hott | image = Lawrence Hott.jpg | caption = Hott on production in the Everglades working on the film ''John James Audubon'' | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1950|10|06|df=y}} | birth_place = New York, U.S. | occupation = Documentary Filmmaker | genre = | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | website = {{URL|http://www.florentinefilms.org/}} }}

'''Lawrence''' "'''Larry'''" '''Hott''' is an American academic and documentary filmmaker.

Hott is a co-founding partner of Florentine Films, joining Ken Burns, Roger Sherman and Buddy Squires in documentary production in 1978.<ref name="masslive">{{cite news|last1=Serreze|first1=Mary|title=Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott to teach documentary workshop in Northampton|url=http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/11/master_class_in_documentary_fi.html|accessdate=April 28, 2018|work=Springfield Republican|date=November 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Edgerton|first1=G.|title=Ken Burns's America: Packaging the Past for Television|date=2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1137054821|page=55}}</ref> He has produced and directed documentary films for PBS, the Library of American Landscape History, the American Antiquarian Society and others. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award,<ref>{{cite web |title=1992 Oscars |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992 |website=1992 Oscars Academy of Motion Pictures |publisher=AMPAS}}</ref> received a Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and five blue ribbons from the American Film Festival.<ref name="masslive"/> Hott has taught courses in the University Without Walls program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pfarrer|first1=Steve|title=Lights, camera, action: Veteran documentarian leads class on filmmaking|url=http://www.gazettenet.com/NCTV-offers-movie-making-class-with-Florence-filmmaker-7452686|accessdate=April 28, 2018|work=Daily Hampshire Gazette|date=March 16, 2017}}</ref>

Hott is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<ref name="mass">{{cite web|title=UWW Instructors|url=http://www.umass.edu/uww/uww-instructors|website=University Without Walls|publisher=University of Massachusetts Amherst|accessdate=April 28, 2018}}</ref> Hott has been a Fulbright Program Fellow in both Vietnam and Great Britain.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Robbins|first1=Carolyn|title=Florentine Films' Larry Hott wins Fulbright to teach craft in Vietnam|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/03/florentine_films_larry_hott_wi.html|accessdate=December 8, 2018|work=Masslive.com|date=March 24, 2015}}</ref>

==Filmography== * The Old Quabbin Valley 1982 * The Garden of Eden 1983 * The Adirondacks 1986 * Sentimental Women Need Not Apply 1988 * The Wilderness Idea 1989 * ''Wild by Law'' 1991 * Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America 1992 * Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish 1994 * Defending Everybody: The Story of the ACLU 1998 * The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America * The Boyhood Of John Muir 1998 * Divided Highways 1998 * Writing Alone and With Others * Ohio: 200 Years * Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival * The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced 2002 * [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/john-james-audubon-drawn-from-nature/106/ John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature 2006] * Niagara Falls 2006 * On Thin Ice * Through Deaf Eyes 2006 * The American Antiquarian Society * [https://lalh.org/media/films/ Library of American Landscape History] * The Return of the Cuyahoga * Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America * [https://risingvoicesfilm.com/watch-full-film/ Rising Voices 2014] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nPPHzgdg0/ Scitech Band: Pride of Springfield 2017] * The Warrior Tradition 2019 * The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights 2023

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://lalh.org/films/ Online films by Hott for the Library of American Landscape History] * [https://www.americanantiquarian.org/podcasts.htm/ Online films by Hott for the American Antiquarian Society] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20010814001109/http://www.pbs.org/harriman/index.html PBS website Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdCMGdbva4/ Every Cut is a Lie: Lawrence Hott at TEDxFulbright] {{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hott, Lawrence}} Category:University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Category:American documentary filmmakers Category:Living people Category:1950 births