John Dickinson
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
Filmography
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A day in Constitución 2011
Director
Partiendo átomos 2005
Director
Ajishama, The White Ibis 2003
Director, Writer
Entre golpes y boleros 1990
Director, Producer
El rey del bandolín 1985
Director, Writer
Peasant Painter 1984
Director, Writer
The Cumaná Devil 1984
Director, Writer
Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale 2006
Dolly Grip
Macu, la mujer del policía 1987
Camera Operator
La muerte insiste 1984
Camera Operator
Si j'te cherche... j'me trouve 1980
Camera Operator
Credits from TMDB.