Christopher Seward

略歴

Christopher Seward is a documentary filmmaker and consultant with over twenty years of experience. He edited top grossing documentaries like Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and Sicko - both earning Seward awards as the American Cinema Editors Guild as Best Documentary Editor of the year. He has also acted as supervising and consulting editor on films like The Food Cure; Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, Wake Up, and Fire in the Blood.

参加作品

The Last of the Winthrops
Writer
THE LAST OF THE WINTHROPS explores the powerful revelations of a woman who reclaims her sense of self after taking an Ancestry DNA test. Initially she faces the seismic truth that her father, Reginald Winthrop, who could trace his heritage literally to the founders of America, is not her biological father. When Reg and his beautiful French Canadian wife Claire have their “miracle child”, Viviane is raised as an heir to the historic Winthrop exceptionalism and finds pride in her career in dentistry. After she is contacted by an unknown relative through their Ancestry DNA test, Viviane embraces her new identity, where she finds peace after facing powerful themes about love, blood and family.
Ariel Phenomenon
Writer
Ariel Phenomenon explores an African extraterrestrial encounter witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in 1994. As a Harvard professor, a BBC war reporter, and past students investigate, they struggle to answer the question: “What happens when you experience something so extraordinary that nobody believes you?”
The Food Cure: Hope or Hype?
Supervising Editor
THE FOOD CURE presents an intimate portrait of six cancer patients who make the radical decision to turn their backs on conventional medicine and put their faith in a controversial alternative cancer treatment based on food.
Complicit
Writer
Shot below the radar, this film follows the journey of Chinese factory migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage.
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird
Producer
Hey, Boo explores the life of reclusive author Nelle Harper Lee, shedding light on the context and history of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird
Editor
Hey, Boo explores the life of reclusive author Nelle Harper Lee, shedding light on the context and history of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
シッコ
Editor
超大国なのに保険充実度は、なんと先進国中最下位のアメリカ!!先進国で唯一、”国民健康保険”が存在しないアメリカでは、国民の6人に1人が無保険。毎年1.8万人が、医療費を払えないために治療を受けられずに死んでいく。しかし『シッコ』は保険に入っている人々についての映画である。え?なら何の問題があるの?それは、アメリカの医療保険システム!この問題のシステムにより人々は高い保険料を払っていても、一度、大病を患えば治療費が支払えずに病死か破産を迎えるしかないのだ。「こんな医療制度はビョーキ(Sicko)だ!!」マイケル・ムーアがほえると、医療業界はたちまち厳戒態勢に!!ただちに「マイケル・ムーア対策マニュアル」を制作?!全国の支社に緘口令を発令!
華氏911
Editor
9.11事件を綿密に取材し世界中に賛否両論を巻き起こしたマイケル・ムーア監督による問題作。当時のアメリカ大統領であるブッシュ批判と反戦をテーマに、エンタテインメント性豊かに演出したドキュメンタリーだ。