Allan Francovich Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Allan James Francovich (March 23, 1941 – April 24, 1997) was an American film producer and director who made a series of films, one of the more notable being On Company Business, a three hour documentary treatment of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operations, a work co-produced by Howard Dratch and edited by Veronica Selver.Francovich suffered a fatal heart attack while attempting to enter the country from England and being taken aside for questioning by officials at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, on April 17, 1997; he was 56. His father, Aldo Francovich, worked as a mining engineer for Cerro de Pasco mining company in Peru; as a child he lived in high altitude mining towns and witnessed the extreme poverty of the miners. He attended an elite preparatory school in Lima then came to the U.S. to attend Notre Dame University, where he completed a B.A. He lived in Paris for several years, studying free-lance at the Sorbonne before coming to Berkeley. There he finished an M.A. in Dramatic Arts at UC, Berkeley; he also studied film briefly at Stanford and received a grant to study film from the American Film Institute in 1970. He and translator and writer Kathleen Weaver were married in 1970; the two separated amicably and were divorced in 1986. She collaborated on his films during the time of their marriage.His films and papers are archived by the Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California.
Son of a mining engineer, who spent his childhood with his father in Bolivia and Peru. Became a documentary film maker on controversial subjects, such as the 1963 murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and the Lockerbie Pan Am disaster, which was awarded best documentary at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Also won the 1980 International Critics Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin Film Festival for 'On Company Business: A Documentary History of the Central Intelligence Agency'.
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