Neil Hollander

Neil Hollander was born on May 29, 1948 in U.S. but soon his family moved to France. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Hollander is a writer, director and producer for films, has authored several books and hosted museum exhibits. He's also been a university professor, journalist, war correspondent, sailor. His personal interest in sailing took him on a 4-year long trip across the Atlantic and Pacific, in a small sailboat with no engine and no electrics. During the trip, Neil Hollander together with Harold Mertes sailed 25,000 miles, filming his documentary The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail (1984). The documentary is narrated by famous Orson Welles. Neil Hollander has also written and directed two feature films, Sea Devils (1998) and Birds of Passage (2001) and several documentaries on modern Myanmar (Burma). Together with Daniela Creutz, Hollander produced and co-directed "Nobel Voices", a documentary consisting of thirty-three videotaped interviews of Nobel Prize laureates, conducted in Lindau, Germany, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the United States.