John Dickinson
Directing
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).
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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.
Known for
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale
January 29, 2006
Macu, la mujer del policía
January 1, 1987
Si j'te cherche... j'me trouve
November 26, 1980
Partiendo átomos
March 13, 2005
La muerte insiste
January 1, 1984
A day in Constitución
September 29, 2011
The Cumaná Devil
January 1, 1984
Ajishama, The White Ibis
January 1, 2003
El rey del bandolín
January 1, 1985
Peasant Painter
January 1, 1984
Behind the camera12
- 2011A day in Constitución Director
- 2006Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale Dolly Grip
- 2005Partiendo átomos Director
- 2003Ajishama, The White Ibis Director, Writer
- 1990Entre golpes y boleros Director, Producer
- 1987Macu, la mujer del policía Camera Operator
- 1985El rey del bandolín Director, Writer
- 1984The Cumaná Devil Director, Writer
- 1984Peasant Painter Director, Writer
- 1984