Doug Wolens
Doug Wolens is an American documentary filmmaker, writer and producer whose documentary films have touched on various issues from logging (Butterfly) to transhumanism (The Singularity). Early life Wolens was raised in Chicago, Illinois. His father sold children's wear while his mother worked in an office. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1981. After graduation, Wolens considered pursuing a MFA in fiction, but his parents only gave him money for graduate school if he studied something 'worthwhile'. Wolens thus studied law at Seton Hall University Law School. Wolens briefly gave up his creative pursuits to practice business law in New York and San Francisco, California. During this period, Wolens was involved in asbestos litigation. Career After his first marriage ended, Wolens realized while practicing law that he still had an urge to write, so he applied to and was accepted at San Francisco University where he took a screenwriting class. Early documentaries and Happy Loving Couples In 1993, Wolens became a filmmaker and his first documentary 'Happy Loving Couples' was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. In Happy Loving Couples, Wolens presents the difficulties of internal monologues of single women in big cities. Happy Loving Couples haunts the narrator