Paul Saltzman

Filmmaker, Photographer, Author, Hockey Player: Paul Saltzman is a two-time Emmy Award-winning, Toronto-based director-producer known for over 300 film and television productions. After briefly studying Engineering Science, he did congressional civil rights lobbying in Washington, D.C., and voter registration in Mississippi, in the summer of 1965, with SNCC. His film and television career began in 1965 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher, interviewer and on-air host, before working at the National Film Board of Canada. In 1967 he interviewed American inventor and visionary Buckminster Fuller, who would later say that until he met Saltzman he thought "the '60s generation was a lost generation." In 1968, he learned meditation at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, an experience that changed his life. There, he photographed the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love. In 1968-69 he assisted in the birth of a new film format as second-unit director and prod