Terry Zwigoff

A San Francisco resident, Zwigoff held numerous jobs, including musician, shipping clerk, printer, and welfare office worker, before he made his first foray into film in the 1980s with his documentary short "Louie Bluie" (1985). A portrait of an obscure blues artist, "Louie Bluie" revealed Zwigoff to be an able documentarian and presaged his personal passion for blues and jazz music that would give his feature "Ghost World" (2001) its extraordinary soundtrack. Zwigoff subsequently co-wrote two screenplays with his long time friend, underground cartoonist "Robert Crumb", in the late '80s but neither got made.

Instead, Zwigoff made Crumb himself the subject of his first feature-length documentary. A Sundance Film Festival sensation... Full Biography