Directing
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
March 7, 1942 (age 84)
Born in
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1942 and raised in McClusky, North Dakota, Hanson graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, received his B.A. from Carleton College, and did postgraduate studies in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He began his career in film, going on to direct the motion pictures Northern Lights, Wildrose, and Shimmer, and numerous film, video and television documentaries. His films have been shown at film festivals around the world, including Venice, Berlin, London, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Sundance and Cannes, where Northern Lights won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival for Best First Feature of 1979. In addition to many other film awards, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Carleton College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Northland College. He is past chair and current board member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council. He was a founding member of Cine Manifest, a seminal independent film collective in San Francisco and the Independent Feature Project. He lives in Bayfield, Wisconsin.
Traveling Light
as Director, Producer
TBA

The Rendlesham UFO : The British Roswell
as Executive Producer
2025
Cine Manifest
as Self
2006

Shimmer
as Director
1993

Wildrose
as Writer, Director
1984

Mafia on the Bounty
as Bruce
1980

Survivor
as Director, Additional Photography
1980

Rebel Earth
as Director, Producer
1980

Northern Lights
as Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
1978

Prairie Fire
as Director
1977

Baker's Hawk
as Editor
1976

Secrets
as Producer
1971