Beginning in 1994, Haydn Reiss has made a series of documentaries on poets, including William Stafford & Robert Bly: A Literary Friendship (1994) and the award-winning Rumi: Poet of the Heart (MVFF 1998). Reiss' 2009 film Every War Has Two Losers was a 2011 winner at the Canadian International Film Festival and an official selection of the 2011 United National Film Festival. In a previous life he worked as the director's assistant on the psychological thriller Jacob's Ladder and on Oliver Stone's JFK.
Mill Valley Film Festival
