Godfrey Reggio
Director

Godfrey Reggio Net Worth

Godfrey Reggio is a renowned film director, writer, and producer who is best known for his QATSI trilogy, a series of visual essays that explore the destructive impact of modern life on the environment. Reggio has a long history of service to the environment, youth street gangs, the poor, and the community. He was born in New Orleans in 1940 and entered the Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic pontifical order, at age 14. He is the creator of the films Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Powaqqatsi (1988), Anima Mundi (1992), and Naqoyqatsi (2002), all of which were accompanied by music composed by Philip Glass. Reggio is currently in the early stages of production on a new film that will explore the negative effects of consumerism and fundamentalism. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a frequent lecturer on philosophy, technology, and film.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Writer, Producer
Birth Day March 29, 1940
Birth Place  New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Age 83 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Aries
Occupation Film director, screenwriter

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Biography/Timeline

1750

Reggio was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to an old and distinguished Louisiana family descended from Francesco M. de Reggio, an Italian nobleman who first settled in France and then in French Louisiana around 1750.

1963

Reggio co-founded La Clinica de la Gente, a facility that provided medical care to 12,000 community members in Santa Fe, and La Gente, a community-organizing project in northern New Mexico's barrios. In 1963 he co-founded Young Citizens for Action, a community organization project that aided juveniles in the street gangs of Santa Fe. In 1972, he co-founded the Institute for Regional Education in Santa Fe, a non-profit foundation focused on media development, the arts, community organization, and research.

1995

Reggio is most known for his Qatsi trilogy, which includes the films Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi. All of the film titles are taken from the Hopi language; Koyaanisqatsi meaning "life out of balance," Powaqqatsi meaning "life in transformation," and Naqoyqatsi meaning "life as war". In 1995 he directed the short feature entitled Evidence that featured, like the Qatsi Trilogy, a Soundtrack composed by his friend Philip Glass. Also, he has directed a documentary Anima Mundi. This film was funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature to promote their diversity program. Reggio spent fourteen years in fasting, times of silence, and prayer, training to be a monk within the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic pontifical order, before abandoning that path and making the films.

2006

Reggio has been involved in many progressive political causes in the United States, including work for the American Civil Liberties Union, co-organizing a multi-media public interest campaign on the invasion of privacy and the use of Technology to control behavior. Reggio resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and focuses on films exploring the negative impacts of consumerism and fundamentalism on the world. Godfrey Reggio participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2006.

2013

Reggio's most recent film is Visitors, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Philip Glass returns as the film's Composer, and Jon Kane as the visual designer (having also worked on Naqoyqatsi with Reggio in 2002).

2014

In 2014 Reggio was recognized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City with a full career retrospective entitled Life with Technology: The Cinema of Godfrey Reggio.

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