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About Jack Norton (filmmaker)
- Jack Norton is an American filmmaker, television producer, musician, songwriter, and producer.
- He is the director of the 2015 film Jug Band Hokum.
- He is best known as the co-creator of the Emmy Award-winning preschool television show and brand, (The Zinghoppers).
- He co-directed and co-stars in the PBS show, "Totally, Zinghoppers!" Norton is of Dutch and French descent.
- He grew up in a musical family.
- His baby sitter was Tiny Tim, who gave Norton his first ukulele.
- Blues singer Leon Redbone taught Norton how to play guitar and authors Nick Tosches and Hubert Selby, Jr.
- were family friends. After high school, Norton studied Early Childhood Education and his experience as a preschool teacher helped form the educational principals found in the Zinghoppers music.
- Norton's senior thesis (entitled, "The Childhood Dignity Movement"), helped form the Zinghoppers core goals of "educating, entertaining and engaging" young children.
- While in college, Norton's love of hip-hop culture and dance music led him to attend raves and underground rap house parties.
- Electro, hip-hop, Disney pop and dance music serves as the basis of Norton's musical influences. The Nortons moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2009 to begin production of "Totally, Zinghoppers!", a series for public television. In 2015 Norton announced his directorial debut with Jug Band Hokum, a documentary film that stars Brooklynd Turner and Anne Baggenstoss and follows the lives of band members competing in the Minneapolis Annual Battle of the Jug Bands.
- Guests appearing in the film include Garrison Keillor (of Prairie Home Companion fame), Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and others. In 2017 it was announced Norton's next film will be Wendigosis, a feature-length horror film.
- Four songs written and performed by Jack Norton and Kitty Norton are included in The Florida Project a 2017 film by Sean Baker.
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