American documentary film director, writer and producer)
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt is an American director, writer, producer, and film professor at Princeton University. He is best known for his documentary films ', "Havana Motor Club", ', and "Lumo".
Life and career.
Perlmutt was born in New York City, NY and grew up in Chapel Hill, NC. He holds a B.A. with honors from Brown University in 2001 and an M.F.A. with honors from Columbia University in 2007. In 2007, he won a Student Academy Award for his documentary "Lumo". In 2008, he won Focus Features' Best Director Award at the Columbia University Film Festival for his narrative short "Les Vulnerables" and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Indie Film". His most recent film, "", was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020.
Perlmutt is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the National Board of Review (NBR), and has received multiple film grants from the Sundance Institute for his narrative projects. He has taught filmmaking at Columbia University and William Paterson University, and currently teaches at Princeton University.
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