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Director: Jesse Moss
Cast: James Arthur Hogue, Renee Pacheco, Keith Mark,
Wayne Hobelman
Country: U.S.
Year: 2002
Running Time: 53 min
Format: video
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Santana applied to Princeton University as an eighteen-year-old
self-educated orphan who had grown up herding sheep in the
canyons of Southern Utah. He was accepted for admission, and
while at Princeton, he competed for the University track team,
excelled academically, and was admitted to the Ivy Club, the
campus' most prestigious private eating club.
He attended Princeton for two years until it was discovered
that he was really James Arthur Hogue, a thirty-one-year-old
drifter with a long criminal record. And it wasn't the first
time Hogue had impersonated someone, as years earlier he had
pulled a similar con at Palo Alto High School.
Hogue was arrested on campus, charged with defrauding the
University, and later sent to prison for his crime. Upon his
release from prison, he disappeared. Filmmaker, Jesse Moss
presents a fascinating portrait of this enigmatic man. As
he traces Hogue's steps like a detective, even more questions
arise. Ultimately, Con Man is a mystery where the question
is not whodunit, but why?
--Dan Krovich
Presented By: Jesse Moss
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Jesse Moss returns to the Maryland Film Festival after
Juvies, which he produced, showed at the 2000 festival. He
was also the associate producer of The Shot Heard Round
the World, an investigative documentary about a racially
charged killing in Louisiana and On the Ropes, a feature
documentary about three young Brooklyn boxers training for
the Golden Gloves Championships, which was nominated for an
Academy Award and received the Special Jury Prize at the 1999
Sundance Film Festival. He is currently completing Speedo,
a documentary about Ed "Speedo" Jager, a championship demolition
derby driver.
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