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==Filmography (producing and directing)==
==Filmography (producing and directing)==
'''Feature films'''
'''Feature films'''
* ''Running Mates'' ({{fy|1985}})
* ''Running Mates'' (1985)


'''Short documentaries'''
'''Short documentaries'''
* ''[[Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse]]'' ({{fy|1986}})
* ''[[Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse]]'' (1986)
* ''No Magic Bullets'' ({{fy|1988}})
* ''No Magic Bullets'' (1988)
* ''A Lady as Game as That'' ({{fy|1989}})
* ''A Lady as Game as That'' (1989)
* ''[[Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light]]'' ({{fy|1999}})
* ''[[Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light]]'' (1999)
* ''Pat Kerr: Wrapped in Royalty'' ({{fy|2002}})
* ''Pat Kerr: Wrapped in Royalty'' (2002)
* ''[[Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes]]'' ({{fy|2003}})
* ''[[Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes]]'' (2003)


'''Feature documentaries'''
'''Feature documentaries'''
* ''[[Country Music: The Spirit of America]]'' ([[IMAX]], {{fy|2003}}) aka, ''Our Country''
* ''[[Country Music: The Spirit of America]]'' ([[IMAX]], 2003) aka, ''Our Country''
* ''[[Chances: The Women of Magdalene]]'' ({{fy|2006}})
* ''[[Chances: The Women of Magdalene]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire]]'' ({{fy|2004}}) (executive producer, only)
* ''[[Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire]]'' (2004) (executive producer, only)


'''Television documentaries'''
'''Television documentaries'''
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==Awards==
==Awards==
'''Wins'''
'''Wins'''
* [[CINE]]: Golden Eagle, for: ''Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse''; {{fy|1986}}.
* [[CINE]]: Golden Eagle, for: ''Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse''; 1986.
* CINE: Golden Eagle, for: ''Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days''; {{fy|1990}}.<ref>[http://www.artinitiatives.com/public/Portals/0/Fashion2006.pdf Cutting Edge: The ''Avant-Garde'' and Fashion]. A conference in New York, 2006. Last accessed: April 13, 2008.</ref>
* CINE: Golden Eagle, for: ''Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days''; 1990.<ref>[http://www.artinitiatives.com/public/Portals/0/Fashion2006.pdf Cutting Edge: The ''Avant-Garde'' and Fashion]. A conference in New York, 2006. Last accessed: April 13, 2008.</ref>
* CINE: Golden Eagle, for: ''Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada''; {{fy|1992}}.<ref>[http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117901864.html?categoryid=32&cs=1&p=0 Scott, Tony]. ''Variety,'' film review, October 1, 1993. Last accessed: April 12, 2008</ref>
* CINE: Golden Eagle, for: ''Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada''; 1992.<ref>[http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117901864.html?categoryid=32&cs=1&p=0 Scott, Tony]. ''Variety,'' film review, October 1, 1993. Last accessed: April 12, 2008</ref>
* Sichuan Television Festival, [[Chengdu]] China: Golden Panda award, ''Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada''; 1993. Note: First American documentary to win this award.<ref>Valdespino, Anne. ''[[Orange County Register]]'', "The life and art of an iconoclast's icon," Show Section-5, August 19, 1993.</ref><ref>Cutting Edge: The ''Avant-Garde'' and Fashion. Ibid</ref>
* Sichuan Television Festival, [[Chengdu]] China: Golden Panda award, ''Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada''; 1993. Note: First American documentary to win this award.<ref>Valdespino, Anne. ''[[Orange County Register]]'', "The life and art of an iconoclast's icon," Show Section-5, August 19, 1993.</ref><ref>Cutting Edge: The ''Avant-Garde'' and Fashion. Ibid</ref>
* [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]]: [[Emmy Award]], Best Documentary, [[DOC: The Documentary Channel]], Tom Neff and Jimmy Holcomb, executive producers; for: ''[[Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire]]''; [[2006 in television|2006]].<ref>[http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_28th_winners_data_list.html The Emmy Awards]. On-line web site, 27th Annual News and Documentary Awards, 2006. Last accessed: April 16, 2008.</ref>
* [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]]: [[Emmy Award]], Best Documentary, [[DOC: The Documentary Channel]], Tom Neff and Jimmy Holcomb, executive producers; for: ''[[Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire]]''; [[2006 in television|2006]].<ref>[http://www.emmyonline.org/mediacenter/news_28th_winners_data_list.html The Emmy Awards]. On-line web site, 27th Annual News and Documentary Awards, 2006. Last accessed: April 16, 2008.</ref>
* Nashville Film Festival: Audience Award for Best Documentary, Tom Neff, for: ''Chances: The Women of Magdalene''; {{fy|2006}}.<ref>[http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1161130.php/Nashville_Film_Festival_winners ''M&C News'']. Movie News, "Nashville Film Festival Winners," May 5, 2006. Last accessed: April 24, 2008.</ref>
* Nashville Film Festival: Audience Award for Best Documentary, Tom Neff, for: ''Chances: The Women of Magdalene''; 2006.<ref>[http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1161130.php/Nashville_Film_Festival_winners ''M&C News'']. Movie News, "Nashville Film Festival Winners," May 5, 2006. Last accessed: April 24, 2008.</ref>


'''Nominations'''
'''Nominations'''
* Academy Awards: Oscar, [[Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject|Best Documentary, Short Subjects]], for: ''Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse''; shared with: Madeline Bell; {{fy|1987}}.
* Academy Awards: Oscar, [[Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject|Best Documentary, Short Subjects]], for: ''Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse''; shared with: Madeline Bell; 1987.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 02:31, 11 March 2010

Tom Neff
Born
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation(s)Business executive, film producer and director
ChildrenKatherine Clark and Thomas, Jr.

Thomas Linden Neff, known as Tom Neff, is a film executive, director and producer, born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Currently, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Education

Neff received his Bachelor of Arts from Lawrence University with a major in English. In 1981, he completed a Master of Fine Arts at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

Career

Neff is the founder and CEO of DOC: The Documentary Channel, the first channel in the United States to show documentaries on a full-time basis.[citation needed] The Documentary Channel was created in 1998 and is currently on the DISH Network, Channel 197. Neff is also a documentary film producer and director.

Neff's films have won several national and international awards, including an Academy Award nomination and an Emmy win.[2] In 1983 he began Tennessee's first feature film production company, Horizon Films, and wrote and directed the feature film Running Mates (1985) distributed worldwide by New World Pictures.

In the early 1990s, with partner Diandra Douglas, Neff co-founded and ran Wild Wolf Productions, a California-based (Culver City) documentary film production company that produced Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada (1993) and America's Music: The Roots of Country (1996).

More recently, Neff produced, wrote, and directed the 30-minute documentary, Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes, on the art and sculpture of musician Herb Alpert (2003); Country Music: The Spirit of America, (2003), an IMAX film which traces the history of the United States in the 20th Century through country music; and Chances: The Women of Magdalene (2006), his most recent feature-length documentary on the socially conscious organization Magdalene, located in Nashville, that recovers prostitutes off the street.

He has served on the Board of the International Documentary Association, the Tennessee Governor's Film Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of the Watkins College of Art&Design in Nashville, was Chairman of Finance on the Belcourt Theater board, and was co-chairman of the Nashville Film Festival. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he sat on the Nominating Committee for Best Documentary. Neff has participated on various documentary panels at film festivals around the world.[citation needed]

Teaching

Neff has taught at his alma mater as an adjunct professor (School of Cinematic Arts at USC). In the 1990s he taught a course on music video production. His students taking the course (USC Cinema 499) shot various music videos for country music artists such as Radney Foster, and others. Neff obtained financing for the program from various records labels, such as Arista Nashville.[3]

Filmography (producing and directing)

Feature films

  • Running Mates (1985)

Short documentaries

Feature documentaries

Television documentaries

Awards

Wins

Nominations

References

  1. ^ Tom Neff at IMDb.
  2. ^ Halpern, Frances. Los Angeles Times, Ventura County Live section, "Words and Images," March 11, 1993.
  3. ^ Atwood, Brett. Billboard (magazine), article, "USC students Learning on the Job," January 20, 1996.
  4. ^ Cutting Edge: The Avant-Garde and Fashion. A conference in New York, 2006. Last accessed: April 13, 2008.
  5. ^ Scott, Tony. Variety, film review, October 1, 1993. Last accessed: April 12, 2008
  6. ^ Valdespino, Anne. Orange County Register, "The life and art of an iconoclast's icon," Show Section-5, August 19, 1993.
  7. ^ Cutting Edge: The Avant-Garde and Fashion. Ibid
  8. ^ The Emmy Awards. On-line web site, 27th Annual News and Documentary Awards, 2006. Last accessed: April 16, 2008.
  9. ^ M&C News. Movie News, "Nashville Film Festival Winners," May 5, 2006. Last accessed: April 24, 2008.
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