Biography
Neil Hollander was born in New York City, NY, on July 9, 1939. His ancestry includes German and Irish. Hollander is a graduate of the University of Washington. Today he lives and works in Paris, France.
Neil Hollander is a writer, director and film producer. He is author of several books, interview and has also hosted museum exhibits. During his long career Neil has worked as a professor at the University of Washington and as a journalist and war correspondent from Burma. He got his start as a journalist - reporter travelling the country and writing reports from the places he visits. After spending almost a decade on the road, Hollander decided to turn his attention to writing books and screenplays.
At the beginning of the 80's Neil Hollander and Harold Mertes decided to sail around the world and document the life of people on various seaports. This project took 4 years and and was captured both on paper and film. It remains to be one of the last remainders of the bygone era. The doc...