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April 2005
 Filmmaker
Jonathan Wacks heads the Moving
Image Arts Department at the College of Santa Fe. He has directed
a number of films, from documentary to comedy, working with well-known
actors such as Steve Buscemi in Ed and His Dead Mother,
and Ethan Hawke in Mystery Date. Wacks won the 1989 Sundance
Film Festival Filmmakers Trophy (Dramatic) for the underground
classic Powwow Highway. He produced Alex Coy's Repo
Man and the accompanying soundtrack. A former vice-president
of production at the Samuel Goldwyn Company, Wacks has chaired
the Independent Feature Project-West and served on the selection
committee of the Sundance Institute Writers Program. He received
his MFA from the University of California-Los Angeles.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Jonathan Wacks - courtesy of the filmmaker
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