Fax Bahr
Director
Areas of Focus: Documentaries, Feature Films
Organization: Water Warriors Project, LLC
Biography
BIOGRAPHY
A writer, director, and producer, Bahr won a Directing Emmy for Hearts Of Darkness, A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse. Bahr has screenwriting credits on five feature films, and has served as Show Runner on eight network television series. His credits include Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Malibu’s Most Wanted, In Living Color, MadTV, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, and Chocolate News. Most recently, he produced the feature documentary Doin’ My Drugs, exploring the AIDS crisis in Zambia. Next, he produced the feature documentary Out From The Ashes, following a Ukrainian family’s harrowing escape for Mariupol after the Russian invasion. He is currently producing the documentary series Our Game, following the indigenous Haudenosaunee Nationals lacrosse team in their quest to attend the ‘28 Olympics as a sovereign nation. Bahr is also directing and producing the feature documentary Hellcat, The True Story of an Unreasonable Texas Waterkeeper, now in post-production. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Their three children are scattered across the country, doing good things.
CREDITS
DOCUMENTARY
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse; Primetime Best Director Emmy/D.W. Griffith Best Documentary/National Film Board of Canada Best Documentary.
Hellcat, The True Story of an Unreasonable Texas Waterkeeper – Director/Producer – A feature documentary portrait following shrimp boat captain Diane Wilson’s harrowing war against the petrochemical giants that have polluted, and nearly destroyed, the Texas Gulf Coast bays her family’s fished for a century (in post-production).
Doin’ My Drugs – Producer – A feature length documentary about activist/musician Thomas Buttenschøn, and his crusade to wipe out the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia.
Our Game – Producer – A documentary seriues following the indigenous Haudenosaunee Nationals lacrosse team in their quest to attend the ‘28 Olympics as a sovereign nation (in production).
Out From The Ashes – Producer – A feature following a Ukrainian family’s harrowing escape for Mariupol after the Russian invasion.
FILM
Screenplay – Son-In-Law/Hollywood Pictures.
Screenplay – In The Army Now/Hollywood Pictures.
Screenplay/Producer – Malibu’s Most Wanted/Warner Brothers.
Story by – Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa/Paramount.
Screenplay – Guerra De Likes/Sony
TELEVISION
Staff Writer In Living Color/Fox; 2 Emmy nominations; 2 NAACP Image Awards.
Co-creator/Show Runner – MAD TV;14 seasons/Fox; sketch comedy series.
Co-creator/Show Runner – Gary & Mike/UPN; stop motion animation series.
Co-creator/Show Runner – The Jamie Kennedy Experiment/WB; hidden camera sketch series.
Co-creator/Show Runner – Blue Collar TV/WB, and Foxworthy’s Big Night Out/CMT; variety series.
Co-creator/Show Runner – Chocolate News/Comedy Central; sketch.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT – Hellcat
Several years ago I attended a Waterkeeper Alliance fundraiser in Los Angeles. I had heard of the Riverkeepers who saved the Hudson River back in the 60’s, but was curious to dig deeper.
I arrived to discover poster sized photos of Waterkeepers from around the planet. Everyday folks who fought pollution of their local waterways. An amateur Senagalese soccer player who, at great personal peril, stopped four coal fired power plants from being built and polluting the waters their community depends on; a soft spoken Bangladeshi father who faced down death threats to prevent clothing manufacturers from spewing toxic dye into his beloved Buriganga River; a fourth generation fisherwoman on the Gulf coast of Texas who has taken on, and beaten, one of the biggest plastic maufacturers in the world.
People literally putting their lives on the line to protect their local water source.
Their fearlessnes and selflessness are a call to action. We aim to celebrate them, as they work on the front lines in the most important war humanity has ever faced… saving our beloved planet, and her most precious resource – water.
