Douglas J. Sloan

Biography

Douglas Sloan is a documentary filmmaker and commercial director who has received numerous prestigious awards for his independent short films and commercial work. He is currently a Sundance Institute grantee for the development of a feature film based on his short film SAIGON'68 which garnered three Best Documentary festival awards and the 2014 CINE Special Jury award. Five other short films released within the past seven years including works on Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz and Elliott Erwitt received multiple Best Doc and festival Audience Awards. His film William Klein: Out of Necessity was broadcast on PBS in 2010. On the commercial front Sloan has received over 100 various production awards including 24 CINE awards for excellence in film direction. He has interviewed and directed numerous works with artists, musicians and celebrity talent: Halle Berry, Gabriel Byrne, Sean Combs, Elvis Costello, Clint Eastwood, Elliott Erwitt, Morgan Freeman, Tom Ford, Debbie Harry, Bill T. Jones, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Nicole Kidman, William Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Longo, Wynton Marsalis, Helmut Newton, Gordon Parks, Isabella Rossellini, Todd Rundgren, Cindy Sherman, Sharon Stone, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hilary Swank, Justin Timberlake, John Travolta, Mark Wahlberg, Oprah Winfrey..... Douglas lives in Manhattan, NYC with his wife Diane and two children Maxwell and Mica.