Mick Gold

Mick Gold (born Michael Gold, London, 7 August 1947) is a British documentary film maker, photographer and journalist.

Education

Gold studied English literature at Sussex University, followed by a degree in film and TV production at the Royal College of Art.

Work

From 1972 to 1978, Gold photographed and wrote about rock music for a variety of publications including Creem, Melody Maker, and Let It Rock.^[1] In 1976, he published Rock On the Road, a collection of photo-essays about rock music and its sub-cultural audiences. Contributors to the book included Simon Frith and John Pidgeon.^[2]

The Arts Council of Great Britain funded several arts documentaries directed by Gold, including Europe After the Rain (1978), a history of Dada and Surrealism,^[3] and Schiele in Prison (1980), which dramatised the prison diary of Viennese artist Egon Schiele.^[4]

Gold co-directed Hostage (1999), a series of three films for Channel Four about the hostage crisis in Lebanon from 1984 to 1991.^[5] The series won first prize at the 1999 Festival International du Film d'Histoire, Pessac.^[6]

Gold has produced and directed several history series for BBC2, including Watergate (1994), a five hour series about the downfall of President Nixon which won a Primetime Emmy Award,^[7] and a duPont Columbia Award.^[8] Gold co-directed Death of Apartheid (US title: Mandela's Fight For Freedom) (1995), a three hour history of how Nelson Mandela negotiated his way out of prison and into power as the first President of an ANC government of South Africa. The series was written by the South African journalist, Allister Sparks, and it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in 1996.^[9] Endgame In Ireland (2001), won a Peabody Award for its "enlightening exploration of the tortuous complexities of international peace negotiations in Northern Ireland".^[10] Gold also produced and directed six episodes of the BBC2 art history series The Private Life of a Masterpiece, focusing on paintings by Velázquez, Goya, Delacroix, Degas, Dalí, and Rogier van der Weyden.^[11]

Gold has directed four films for the Channel 4 series Dispatches about UK political developments, written and presented by journalist Andrew Rawnsley.^[12] In 2007, Gold produced and directed a controversial documentary about US foreign policy presented by Richard Perle, "The Case for War",^[13] which was broadcast by PBS as part of the series America at a Crossroads.^[14]

External links

• Mick Gold at the Internet Movie Database
• Mick Gold's articles on Rock's Back Pages

References

1. ^ "Rocks back pages writers Mick Gold". Rocksbackpages.com. 14 December 2009. http://www.rocksbackpages.com/writer.html?WriterID=gold. Retrieved 7 June 2011. 
2. ^ Rock On The Road, Futura Publications, 1976, ISBN 0-86007-323-8
3. ^ O'Connor, John (5 January 1987). "'Surreal Eye' Traces Avant-Gardism". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/05/arts/surreal-eye-traces-avant-gardism.html?scp=1&sq='SURREAL%20EYE'%20TRACES%20AVANT-GARDISM&st=cse. Retrieved 15 September 2011. 
4. ^ "Schiele in Prison". Arts On Film Archive. 14 January 2007. http://artsonfilm.wmin.ac.uk/films.php?a=view&recid=97. Retrieved 7 June 2011. 
5. ^ "Hostage". IMDb.com. 24 February 2001. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455257/. Retrieved 7 June 2011. 
6. ^ "Les Palmarés des Années Passées". Festival International du Film d'Histoires, Pessac. 24 October 2009. http://www.cinema-histoire-pessac.com/archives/le-palmares-des-annees-passees/?lang=fr. Retrieved 7 June 2011. 
7. ^ "Watergate". IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192774/. Retrieved 21 June 2011. 
8. ^ "1996 Alfred I. duPont—Columbia University Awards in Television and Radio Journalism". dupont awards.org. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0771643.html. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
9. ^ "Death of Apartheid". imdb.com. January 11, 2001. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191944/. Retrieved July 27, 2011. 
10. ^ "Endgame In Ireland Peabody Award". Peabody Awards. 15 August 2002. http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1281. Retrieved 1 July 2011. 
11. ^ "Private Life of a Masterpiece". fulmar tv. 14 June 2010. http://www.fulmartv.co.uk/PLMasterpiece28.shtml. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
12. ^ "Dispatches: A Year Inside Number Ten". tenalps.com. 1 May 2011. http://www.tenalps.com/news.php?id=1523. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 
13. ^ Jensen, Elizabeth (1 April 2007). "PBS Buys a Lot of Arguments for $20 Million". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/arts/television/01jens.html. Retrieved 5 July 2011. 
14. ^ "The Case For War: In Defense of Freedom". PBS Weta.com. 1 March 2007. http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_the_case_for_war.html. Retrieved 4 July 2011. 

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