Danny Schechter
American television producer, filmmaker, and media critic (1942-2015) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 72
Daniel Isaac Schechter was an American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic. He wrote and spoke about many issues including apartheid, civil rights, economics, foreign policy, journalistic control and ethics, and medicine.
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America's Surveillance StateSeries, Director2007
In Debt We Trust: America Before the Bubble BurstsFilm, Director
InterviewFilm, 2007Political Pundit2005The Peace!Film2004
WMD: Weapons of Mass DeceptionFilm, Director, Producer2003
Orwell Rolls in His GraveFilm2002
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'Film, Director2001Falun Gong's Challenge to ChinaFilm, Director1998Beyond Life: Timothy Leary LivesFilm, Director, Producer1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of ConspiracyFilm, Director, Writer1942Born27 June 1942People around Danny
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While attending the London School of Economics in the 1960s, Schechter became an anti-apartheid activist and made trips to South Africa on behalf of the African National Congress (ANC). Later he would help musician Steven Van Zandt assemble other performers to form Artists United Against Apartheid, who released the album Sun City in 1985. Schechter produced and directed six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela from the time Mandela was a political prisoner to his election and service as President of South Africa.
