- Place of Birth
- New York, New York, U.S.
Peter Emmanuel Goldman
DirectingBiography
Peter Emanuel Goldman (born 1939) is an American film director. Goldman was born in 1939 in New York. 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 8 mm 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, foll...