Timeline
2014
John receives the Phylis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities from the Modern Language Association (MLA).
2013
GO FOR SISTERS, John’s 18th feature film, premieres at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin. The movie is picked up by Variance Films, and opens across the US in late 2013.
John receives the 2013 Lifetime Achievement PROGIE Award from The Progressive Magazine. He shares this honor with co-winner Robert Redford.
Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, dies at age 95.
George Zimmerman found not guilty in the the fatal shooting of 17-year-old African American student Trayvon Martin.
US Government ends ban on women participating in ground combat.
Edward Snowden exposes the NSA’s mass-surveillance program.
US Government shuts down for 16 days due to budget disagreements in Congress.
Typhoon Haiyan and a massive earthquake destroy parts of the Philippines.
Movies: Iron Man 3, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Despicable Me 2, Frozen, Man of Steel, Gravity, World War Z.
Fruitville Station (Ryan Coogler)
Blue Caprice (Alexandre Moors)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
August: Osage County (John Wells)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
The Bling Ring (Sophia Coppola)
2012
Wins prestigious LEAF Award from the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts.
Shoots 18th feature film, Go For Sisters, on location in California and Mexico in the summer of 2012.
