An internationally acclaimed producer and director with 20 years in
the film business, Frederick has been nominated for both an Academy Award
and the Emmy. He's been named the Chicago Tribune Artist of the Year for
1994, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow, and the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy
Special Achievement Award. His film Hoop Dreams won the Audience
Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was the first documentary ever
chosen to close the New York Film Festival. It was on over 100 "ten
best" lists nationwide and was chosen best Film of the Year by the
Chicago Film Critics Association. It is the highest-grossing, non-musical
documentary in United States history. Other award winners include Saving
the Sphinx, Higher Goals, Out of Silence, and Dreams
from China.
