tony silver ✝
Film director
Tony Silver is perhaps best remembered for his documentary Style Wars (1983), one of the first accounts of New York graffiti and hip-hop culture from the early 1980s. His other documentaries include Anita Ellis: For the Record (1980) and Arisman: Facing the Audience (2002). Silver passed away in 2008. (1)
Silver was posthumously awarded the American Spirit Award for Freedom of Expression of the Arts by The Common Good alongside Henry Chalfant at the Style Wars event in 2011.
(1) Material from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website.
