Larry Hott

Lawrence R. 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 duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals. He is on the board of MassHumanities in Massachusetts and MaineMedia in Rockport, ME and has recently produced The Niagara Movement: A Mighty Current of Protest for national PBS broadcast.