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Ed Perkins

Ed Perkins

História

Ed Perkins is a Grierson award winning documentary filmmaker living and working in London, trading as Stroma Films Limited. In 2015, Ed was named as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. Ed has directed, filmed and edited for National Geographic, BBC, Channel 4, The New Yorker, Stateless Media, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Focus Features. After graduating from the University of North Carolina as a Morehead-Cain scholar in 2009 - where his student documentary ‘For God's Sake’ won ‘Best in Show’ at the Carolina Film Festival and ‘The Eva Marie Saint-Jeffrey Hayden Humanitas Award’ - he then developed and directed a series of TV documentaries for National Geographic Channel as well as directing the behind-the-scenes documentaries for ‘Project Nim, ‘The Eagle’, the BAFTA winning ‘The Imposter’, and the Academy Award winning ‘Seaching for Sugar Man’. Two of Ed's short films have won Vimeo "Short of the Week" and "Staff Pick" accolades, and 'If I Die on Mars' was featured on the frontpage of The Guardian website and has had more than 1,000,000 views over multiple platforms. In 2015 Ed finished directing his first feature documentary Garnet’s Gold, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2014, won a Grierson Award for Best Newcomer, won Best International Documentary awards at Docville and Jozi Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at both Tribeca and the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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Ed Perkins

Filmes

The Trouble with Mr Doodle

The Trouble with Mr Doodle

Director

This is the story of an extraordinary boy born into an ordinary family in an unremarkable English town and how a childhood passion threatened to take over his life, his home and his mind.

Writer

Décadas após sua prematura morte, a princesa Diana ainda evoca o mistério, glamour e o conto de fadas moderno por excelência e que não teve um final feliz. Filmado integramente a partir de imagens de arquivo.

Director

Décadas após sua prematura morte, a princesa Diana ainda evoca o mistério, glamour e o conto de fadas moderno por excelência e que não teve um final feliz. Filmado integramente a partir de imagens de arquivo.

Director

Neste documentário, Alex confia em seu irmão gêmeo, Marcus, para contar sobre seu passado depois que ele perde a memória. Mas Marcus está escondendo um segredo familiar sombrio.

Editor

O menino Damilola Taylor, de origen nigeriana, foi assassinado violentamente em 27 de novembro de 2000, no que se tornou um dos casos de maior repercussão da Inglaterra. Isto fez a família de Cornelius, um garoto negro também de origem nigeriana, se mudar de Londres. Porém, quando Cornelius descobre que quem manda em sua nova cidade é um grupo de pessoas racistas, ele toma uma decisão drástica para sobreviver. Indicado ao Oscar 2019 de Melhor Curta-Documentário.

Director

O menino Damilola Taylor, de origen nigeriana, foi assassinado violentamente em 27 de novembro de 2000, no que se tornou um dos casos de maior repercussão da Inglaterra. Isto fez a família de Cornelius, um garoto negro também de origem nigeriana, se mudar de Londres. Porém, quando Cornelius descobre que quem manda em sua nova cidade é um grupo de pessoas racistas, ele toma uma decisão drástica para sobreviver. Indicado ao Oscar 2019 de Melhor Curta-Documentário.

Garnet’s Gold

Director

Twenty years ago, Garnet Frost nearly lost his life hiking near Scotland’s Loch Arkaig. The near-death experience still haunts him to this day, and, in particular, a peculiar wooden stick he discovered serendipitously right before he was rescued. Believing the staff (as he calls it) is actually a marker for a fortune hidden nearly 300 years ago, Garnet embarks on a treasure hunt to search for the lost riches. But beneath the search for gold lies a poignant pursuit for life’s meaning and inspiration.

Comic Store Heroes

Comic Store Heroes

Director

Follow the lives of staffers Gerry, Thor and Alex as they deal with all manner of geeks and enthusiastic customers while simultaneously planning their mega-booth for New York Comic Con, their biggest day of the year.