American filmmaker Mark Rappaport was BOTD in 1942. Born in New York City, he graduated from Brooklyn College. He began directing films in the 1960s, including The Scenic Route, inspired by the work of Max Ophüls. He is best known for his 1992 documentary Rock Hudson’s Home Movies, exploring the actor Rock Hudson’s closeted homosexuality as seen through clips from his films. Rapturously received by critics, the film became an important touchstone for film documentaries and popularised queer investigations of Hollywood and pop culture history. Rappaport applied a similar investigative approach to his films From the Journals of Jean Seberg, chronicling Seberg’s involvement with the Black Panthers and surveillance by the FBI; The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender; and the Sergei / Sir Gay, a short film investigating filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s closeted homosexuality. Rappaport lives and works in Paris.