CONTRARY WARRIOR
The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle
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ADAM FORTUNATE EAGLE WITH DIRECTOR JOHN FERRY
John Ferry has been involved in documentary films for over three decades and worked closely with Academy Award winning filmmaker Robert Snyder. Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle marks his latest film. Prior Contrary Warrior he produced and directed the award-winning Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart. He also produced for Snyder an 85-minute documentary on the life and work of Pablo Casals, Pablo Casals: A Cry for Peace, and was Producer, Editor and Associate Director of Henry Miller: To Paint is to Love Again.

His other films with Snyder include Michelangelo: Self-Portrait, a highly acclaimed documentary shown nationally on PBS after a nation-wide theatrical release, Claudio Arrau: A Life in Music, Ruth Asawa: Of Forms and Growth, Willem de Kooning: Artist, The Vatican Collection, and This Is Henry Miller From Brooklyn to Paris.

He studied acting and directing at Lawrence Merrick’s Studio with Joan Huntington and Robert Broyles, has a BA in Theater Arts and an MA in cinema.

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