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John Dickinson

Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Argentine/British born in Buenos Aires, 1946. B.A. in History from Harvard College, 1967, magna cum laude, film studies/workshops at Swedish Film Institute, AFI, and Cal Arts. He has worked in film since 1970, as cameraperson/lighting cameraperson, soundman, and director.  In the 1970s he left Argentina and settled in Venezuela, directing documentaries like The Cumaná Devil, Country Painter, and The Mandolin King, which received a total of 24 awards in Venezuela, Germany and France. Dickinson also made the feature documentary Ajishama, and produced and directed two fiction features in Venezuela, Blows and Boleros, (Channel 4 London, Foncine), and The Crystal Ship (Dickinson/Foncine).  In 2004 he moved back to Argentina, and since then has produced and directed several fiction features, Splitting Atoms (2006), Destiny Foretold (2013), and Dolores (2016- Argentina/Brazil coproduction, INCAA/ANCINE), as well as the feature documentary Station Day in 2011, and the documentary television special Breaking the Cycle (England, 2014).  In 2018 he produced/directed the documentary feature Fireland Dogs (Tierra del Fuego). He is currently working on a documentary feature about nature conservation, to be shot in Patagonia.

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
1980  Si j'te cherche... j'me trouve
1987  Macu, la mujer del policía

Director:
1980  Si j'te cherche... j'me trouve
1984  Peasant Painter
1984  The Cumaná Devil
1985  El rey del bandolín
1987  Macu, la mujer del policía
2003  Ajishama, The White Ibis
2011  A day in Constitución

Dolly Grip:
1980  Si j'te cherche... j'me trouve
1984  Peasant Painter
1984  The Cumaná Devil
1985  El rey del bandolín
1987  Macu, la mujer del policía
2003  Ajishama, The White Ibis
2006  Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
2011  A day in Constitución

Writer:
1980  Si j'te cherche... j'me trouve
1984  Peasant Painter
1984  The Cumaná Devil
1985  El rey del bandolín
1987  Macu, la mujer del policía
2003  Ajishama, The White Ibis
2006  Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
2011  A day in Constitución

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TV Production

Camera Operator:
1991  The Jerry Springer Show

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