Paul Saltzman: Filmmaker, Photographer, Writer, Founder of Moving Beyond Prejudice

PAUL SALTZMAN (b.1943) is a Canadian film and television producer and director. A two-time Emmy Award-recipient, he has been credited on more than 300 films, both dramas and documentaries.

The 2008 documentary feature, Prom Night in Mississippi, featuring actor Morgan Freeman, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.  His feature documentary, The Last White Knight—Is Reconciliation Possible? premiered at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2012. It features Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, Delay de la Beckwith (son of Byron De La Beckwith, who shot Medgar Evers in the back) as well as Saltzman himself. His most recent film is the feature documentary Meeting the Beatles in India, filmed in India, Canada, USA, and England. is his most personal film tracing his life-changing journey to India, learning meditation and spending a week with The Beatles at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh. Saltzman is also founder, CEO and president of the charitable, non-profit organization Moving Beyond Prejudice, which works with police forces, students, educators, youth-at-risk and community groups.

Saltzman will be exhibiting his photographs of The Beatles in India at The Betsy Hotel in South Beach starting 9/23/21.

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