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James Longley
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Is fluent in Russian.
Spent two years in Iraq filming his Oscar-nominated documentary, Iraq in Fragments (2006).
Received a Student Academy Award in 1994 for his documentary, Portrait of Boy with Dog, co-directed with Robin Hessman.
Was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2007.
One of 115 invitees to join AMPAS in 2007.
Attended Phillips Andover Academy.
Graduated from Wesleyan University in 1994.
Lived for two years in Magnitogorsk, a steel town in western Siberia.
Worked as a projectionist in his home-town movie theater.
Studied filmmaking at VGIK in Moscow, Russia.
Is a great grand nephew of William Preston "Wild Bill" Longley, a notorious Texas outlaw.
Spent 100 days filming a documentary in the Gaza Strip during the second Palestinian uprising.
Is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
Longley lived and filmed in both Iran and Pakistan for years before settling in Afghanistan to make the documentary, Angels Are Made Of Light [2018].
Longley lived for over three years in a residential house in Kabul, Afghanistan, while filming the documentary Angels Are Made Of Light [2018].
Both of Longley's parents were biologists.
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