Background
Pincus, Edward Ralph was born on July 6, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Jules and Anne (Schehr) Pincus.
Pincus, Edward Ralph was born on July 6, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Jules and Anne (Schehr) Pincus.
AB, Brown University, 1960. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1967.
He has producer-director-director of photography credits on eight of his films and has been cinematographer on more than a dozen additional films. Pincus also authored Guide to Filmmaking (1968) and co-authored The Filmmaker"s Handbook (1984 & 1999). Pincus started and developed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Film Section.
He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) and several National Endowment for the Arts grants.
He was Visiting Filmmaker at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Visiting Filmmaker for three years at Harvard. After completing his best-known work, Diaries, he moved to Vermont and became a farmer until returning to film in 2007.
Editor was known as a leading cut flower Peony producer, who influenced many future generations of farmers and contributed greatly to the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. Pincus died November 5, 2013 of leukemia in Roxbury, Vermont.
The Axe in the Attic trailer.
Selectman Town of Roxbury, Vermont, 1979-1980.
Married Jane Abigail Kates, June 22, 1960. Children: Sami, Ben.