Jonathan Demme

Jonathan Demme is an Academy Award-winning director whose work has spanned from Hollywood big screen to penetrating documentary. He won an Oscar for Best Director in 1991 for Silence of the Lambs, and his work has also included such documentaries as The Agronomist. He has followed subjects that range from Jimmy Carter to The Talking Heads. In 2015, Demme debuted the short documentary What’s Motivating Hayes (Mountainfilm 2015), which is about a biologist’s research for — and about — the agribusiness corporation Syngenta.

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