- Birthday
- 1939-06-05
- Place of Birth
- New York, New York, U.S.
Peter Emanuel Goldman
DirectingBiography
Peter Emanuel Goldman (born June 5, 1939 in New York) is an American film director. He did not have a strong interest in film but did see early works from the French New Wave. He enrolled in university, first in New York and then at La Sorbonne in Paris, but did not complete his studies. Returning to New York, he was given an old 8mm camera from his father, and he began shooting street scenes in Greenwich Village. His first feature-length film, Echoes of Silence, took the sorts of everyday scenes he had been shooting and created a fictional story in which to place them, following the adventur...