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Davis Guggenheim - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born November 3, 1963, St. Louis, Missouri is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cameraman.
Davis Guggenheim graduated from the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia in 1979, Sidwell's Friends School in 1982, and Brown University in 1986.
Guggenheim co-produced the HBO western drama Deadwood as a producer and director during the first season of 2004. The series was created by David Milch and focused on a growing city in Western America. Guggenheim directed the episodes Deep, Border Scouting, Plague, and Sold to Sin. But at the end of season 1, Guggenheim left the project.
Guggenheim later directed an episode of the series Anti-Terror Squad.
Davis Guggenheim directed the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, for which he received an Oscar in the Best Documentary category. The film features former US Vice President Al Gore with his international presentation on global warming. The goal of the Guggenheim was to highlight an issue that critics (especially conservatives) dismissed as nothing more than exaggeration or fiction.
Later, Guggenheim worked on a biopic about Barack Obama (at that time still only a candidate for the presidency of the United States), which was released in August 2008 during the Democratic National Convention. As the New York Times noted, the Guggenheim promotional video about Barack Obama, which aired on October 29, 2008, was "made to the highest standards of cinematography." In 2012, the Guggenheim released The Road Behind, a 17-minute short film about the then current president.
In 2009, Davis Guggenheim was the executive producer of the TV series Melrose Place. His brother-in-law Andrew Shue starred in the 1990s version of this series.
In 2008, the Guggenheim produced the documentary Prepare to Be Loud, which follows the lives of guitarists Jimmy Page, Edge and Jack White.
The 2010 Guggenheim documentary Waiting for Superman about the failures of American public education has sparked controversy and debate. Guggenheim foresaw this reaction and explained that the film was actually about families trying to find a good school. The tape won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It was shown publicly in September 2010.
Guggenheim-directed U2 documentary "U2: From Heaven to Earth" opened the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2011.
In 2013, the Guggenheim directed the 30-minute documentary The Dream is Now. It tells the story of young people and their families living in the United States without any official documents, who are desperate to acquire citizenship of the only country they have ever called home. The film shows the lives of four undocumented US students as they face difficulties due to the imperfection of the country's migration system. However, the Guggenheim offers only one solution to the problem in the film: to grant amnesty to such a group of migrants and issue them documents. The tape was criticized for failing to mention the social and economic costs of illegal immigration, especially the downward pressure on low-income Americans.
In 2015, Davis Guggenheim directed the documentary He Called Me Malala. The film follows Malala Yusufzai, a young Pakistani pro-active woman who was badly injured by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistani terrorist fighters for her advocacy for the availability of education for women around the world.
