Peter Hanson

Birthday: May 28, 1969 in Lansing, Michigan, USA

Michigan native Peter Hanson studied film production as an undergraduate at NYU and earned his MFA in screenwriting at UCLA. His work includes the feature-length documentaries "Tales from the Scr ...Show More

Michigan native Peter Hanson studied film production as an undergraduate at NYU and earned his MFA in screenwriting at UCLA. His work includes the feature-length documentaries "Tales from the Script" and "Every Pixel Tells a Story," numerous short films, and the books "Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel" (a finalist for the Theatre Library Association Award), "The Cinema of Generation X," and "Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories." He has written over 2,000 nonfiction articles, mostly about the entertainment industry, for various online and print outlets; spoken at numerous colleges and film festivals; appeared as a commentator in documentary films and TV shows in the U.S. and Japan; and taught film/screenwriting classes at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Hanson's blog, "Every '70s Movie," has earned more than 5.5 million views. Hanson lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Leslie. Hide