Leon Gast

Leon Gast is an American documentary film director producer cinematographer and editor His documentary When We Were Kings depicting the iconic heavyweight boxing match termed The Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman won the 1996 Academy Award for Documentary Feature and the Independent Spirit Award Gast codirected the 1977 documentary The Grateful Dead Movie with guitarist Jerry Garcia The film captured the bands October 1974 fivenight performance at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco Gast also codirected the 1983 film Hells Angels Forever A native of Jersey City New Jersey Gast studied dramatic arts at Columbia University and in that same period worked the television series High Adventure with writer and broadcaster Lowell Thomas Gast is also known for his still photography which has appeared in such magazines as Vogue Esquire and Harpers Bazaar Gasts most recent project is a documentary entitled Smash His Camera a film about paparazzi photographer Ron Galella The film won Best Director of a documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Gast licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia