Louis Marcus (filmmaker)
{{Short description|Irish documentarian}}
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| nationality = Irish
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| alma_mater = University College Cork
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| notable_works =Fleá ceoil
Children at Work
Conquest of Light
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Louis Marcus HRHA (born 1936) is an Irish documentarian.{{cite web| url = http://www.jewishireland.org/news/louis-marcus-a-life-in-film/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120426130105/http://www.jewishireland.org/news/louis-marcus-a-life-in-film/| archive-date = 2012-04-26| title = Louis Marcus Honoured For Outstanding Work : Irish Jewish Community}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8VjLnHIVJAC&q=%22louis+marcus%22+1936&pg=PT174|title=The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film|first=Harvey|last=O'Brien|date=13 October 2017|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719069079|via=Google Books}}
Early life
Louis Marcus was born to an Irish Jewish family in Cork City in 1936.{{cite web|url=http://filmireland.net/2011/11/23/louis-marcus-wins-outstanding-directing-in-the-irish-language-award/|title=Louis Marcus wins Outstanding Directing in the Irish Language Award - Film Ireland|website=filmireland.net|date=23 November 2011}}{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/history-of-cork-s-jewish-community-to-be-commemorated-1.3082600|title=History of Cork's Jewish community to be commemorated|newspaper=The Irish Times |publisher=}} His brother David Marcus (1924–2009) was a writer. Their grandfathers, Jacob Marcus and Louis Goldberg, arrived in Queenstown (Cobh) in 1882, from Akmenė (Akmian) fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire.{{cite web|url=http://www.southernstar.ie/news/roundup/articles/2017/06/24/4141777-local-input-into-cork-exhibition-on-citys-jewish-community/|title=The Southern Star - Local input into Cork exhibition on city's Jewish community|publisher=}}
Career
Marcus won the Silver Bear for Best Short Film for Fleá Ceoil at the 1967 Berlin International Film Festival.
Children at Work was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 46th Academy Awards(1974), while Conquest of Light was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 48th Academy Awards(1976).
He is a member of Aosdána and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.{{cite web|url=http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Marcus.aspx?Cnuas=1|title=Louis Marcus - Current Member - Aosdana|website=aosdana.artscouncil.ie}}
Personal life
His sons Shimmy Marcus and Joe Marcus are also filmmakers.{{cite web|url=https://mycreativeedge.eu/in-profile-item/joe-marcus-omas-media/|title=Joe Marcus, OMAS Media - My Creative Edge|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/irishfilm/biographies/showbio.php?fid=58|title=Biographies - Irish Film & TV Research Online - Trinity College Dublin|website=www.tcd.ie}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0546146}}
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Category:Irish documentary filmmakers
Category:Documentary film producers
Category:Irish documentary film directors
Category:Irish people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Category:Mass media people from Cork (city)
Category:20th-century Irish Jews
Category:21st-century Irish Jews
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