Larry Hott

LAWRENCE HOTT has been producing documentary films since 1978, when he left the practice of law to join Florentine Films. His awards include an Emmy, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw OAH History Award, 14 CINE Golden Eagles, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals.

In 2002 and 2003, Hott completed three films for PBS broadcast: Imagining Robert: My Brother, Madness and Survival; The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced; and Ohio: 200 Years. Imagining Robert was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the outstanding documentaries of 2002. From 2004 to 2008, Hott produced and directing four more national PBS productions: Niagara Falls; Through Deaf Eyes; Audubon: Drawn from Nature for American Masters; and The Return of the Cuyahoga. He is now in production on 1812: The War We Forgot and Thin Ice: The Bering Sea at the Dawn of Global Warming.

Hott was the Fulbright Fellow in Film and Television in the United Kingdom in 1994. He received the Humanities Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in 1995; a Massachusetts Cultural Council/Boston Film and Video Foundation Fellowship in 2001; and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2001. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America.